# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at SMG
> OSHA SIR `2018021086` · 2/1/2018 · PEORIA, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
- **Secondary source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** SMG
- **Location:** 201 SOUTHWEST JEFFERSON, PEORIA, ILLINOIS, 61602
- **NAICS:** 711310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On February 1, 2018, two employees were unloading equipment from a truck. The injured employee was pulling the equipment while a coworker pushed from the other side. The equipment's casters were caught on the edge of the ramp and the equipment tipped over, falling on top of the injured employee, resulting in a back injury that required hospitalization.

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