# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Alpha Packaging, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018010418` · 1/12/2018 · GREENWOOD, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Strapping
## Employer
- **Name:** Alpha Packaging, Inc.
- **Location:** 2020 E. Center St., GREENWOOD, ARKANSAS, 72936
- **NAICS:** 561910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was straightening the strapping around a unit of boxes inside a truck when the strapping broke, causing him to lose his balance and fall backwards out of the truck. He fell on his head, injuring his neck and requiring surgery.

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