# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at GULF COPPER
> OSHA SIR `2015021140` · 2/4/2015 · PITI, GUAM
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
- **Secondary source:** Rain
## Employer
- **Name:** GULF COPPER
- **Location:** Building Shop 81, PITI, GUAM, 96915
- **NAICS:** 336611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee fell approximately 12 feet from the top of a DOT water tank at the Naval Shipyard on February 2, 2015. The employee had been filling the tank with waste water from a naval vessel. They had just completed the job when it started to rain. The supervisor or team leader asked the victim to climb up and close the top hatch.  The victim fell off, landed head first on the asphalt, and required hospitalization.

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