# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Birdsong Peanuts
> OSHA SIR `2017109629` · 10/7/2017 · GREENWOOD, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Elevators
- **Secondary source:** Rope, twine, string
## Employer
- **Name:** Birdsong Peanuts
- **Location:** 1710 Cypress Ave., GREENWOOD, MISSISSIPPI, 38930
- **NAICS:** 111992
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was lowered into a peanut elevator to unclog the choke. Afterward, he was being pulled out of the elevator when his harness rope broke (cut on metal edge), causing him to fall approximately 10 feet. He injured his ankle.

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