# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Sunshine Electronic Display
> OSHA SIR `2017010371` · 1/12/2017 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Extension ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** Sunshine Electronic Display
- **Location:** 14811 N. Fwy, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77090
- **NAICS:** 339950
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing a sign for a newly constructed gas station and was using a 14-foot extension ladder along with some hand tools. When he began to descend the ladder, it slid to the side. He then fell 12 feet to the ground below and injured his back, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

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