# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Ruan Transportation, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017032941` · 3/31/2017 · BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT
## 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, unspecified
- **Source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
- **Secondary source:** Rain
## Employer
- **Name:** Ruan Transportation, Inc.
- **Location:** 560 North Washington Ave., BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, 06604
- **NAICS:** 484121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unstrapping a tarped load on a flatbed trailer when the tarp became caught on the load. At the time of the incident, it was raining heavily. He was attempting to remove the wet tarp when he slipped on it and fell from the trailer, injuring his back.

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