# Pinched nerve at Illinois Bell Telephone Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015129852` · 12/20/2015 · PALOS PARK, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Pinched nerve
## Cause
- **Event:** Standing, standing up-single episode
- **Source:** Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
## Employer
- **Name:** Illinois Bell Telephone Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 9930 Mission Drive, PALOS PARK, ILLINOIS, 60464
- **NAICS:** 517919
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing u-verse equipment in a customer's home. When he stood up he felt a pop in his back. He was hospitalized for a pinched nerve.

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