# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Bellsouth Telecommunications, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017109464` · 10/2/2017 · CANTON, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Trip from stepping into a hole without fall
- **Source:** Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
## Employer
- **Name:** Bellsouth Telecommunications, LLC
- **Location:** 329 Boyd St, CANTON, MISSISSIPPI, 39046
- **NAICS:** 517410
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was carrying an extension ladder on his shoulder when he stepped in a hole and injured his back. He was hospitalized.

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