# Strains at Pepsico, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017032100` · 3/7/2017 · BARRINGTON, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Strains
## Cause
- **Event:** Bending, crawling, reaching, twisting-single episode
- **Source:** Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
## Employer
- **Name:** Pepsico, Inc.
- **Location:** 617 Main Street, BARRINGTON, ILLINOIS, 60010
- **NAICS:** 541712
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assembling a heat exchanger. He bent over to hand a co-worker a screw and strained his back.

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