# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Southern Star, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20161111187` · 11/30/2016 · HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall from collapsing structure or equipment less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Stairs, steps-outdoors
## Employer
- **Name:** Southern Star, Inc.
- **Location:** 1187 McClinton Rd, HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK, ARKANSAS, 71901
- **NAICS:** 811213
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was at a customer's house, walking up to the front door when the wooden stairs broke. The employee's foot went through the broken stairs to the ground and he felt a pinch in his lower back. The employee tried to get up and walk, but he could not and fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized overnight for a lower back injury.

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