# Sprains, strains, minor tears at Johnson Controls Cincinnati Office
> OSHA SIR `2025077371` · 7/28/2025 · CINCINNATI, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Sprains, strains, minor tears
## Cause
- **Event:** Multiple types of bodily position and motion
- **Source:** Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Johnson Controls Cincinnati Office
- **Location:** 4170 Rosslyn Dr, CINCINNATI, OHIO, 45209
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee developed lower back pain after climbing up fixed ladders to reach a roof, then beginning to route wire into an air handling unit. When the employee knelt to pick up rope, the back pain became severe. The employee was hospitalized, having suffered a sprain to a back muscle.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*