# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Metro Staffing
> OSHA SIR `2016042971` · 4/8/2016 · CICERO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Bending, crawling, reaching, twisting-single episode
- **Source:** Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** Metro Staffing
- **Location:** 1540 S. 54th Ave., CICERO, ILLINOIS, 60804
- **NAICS:** 561320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While lifting a pallet, an employee bent down, felt a crack, and slipped and fell. The employee was hospitalized with a lumbar injury.

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