# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Great Lakes Plumbing & Heating
> OSHA SIR `2017065717` · 6/21/2017 · LAKE FOREST, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Step ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** Great Lakes Plumbing & Heating
- **Location:** 660 N. Westmoreland Road, LAKE FOREST, ILLINOIS, 60045
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was fixing a sprinkler head while standing on an A-frame ladder when the leg of the ladder slipped on the vinyl flooring. The employee then fell from the ladder, hitting a window sill and then the floor. He injured his vertebrae and was hospitalized.

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