# Pinched nerve at AT&T
> OSHA SIR `2017098950` · 9/19/2017 · CANTONMENT, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Pinched nerve
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Extension ladders
- **Secondary source:** Bees, hornets, wasps
## Employer
- **Name:** AT&T
- **Location:** 556 Desert Oak Dr., CANTONMENT, FLORIDA, 32533
- **NAICS:** 517510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on an extension ladder mounting a dish at a residence when wasps stung him several times and he fell off the ladder. He suffered a pinched nerve and numbness in his upper arms/neck, requiring hospitalization.

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