# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at VT Mobile Aerospace Engineering, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018043801` · 4/20/2018 · MOBILE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Handrails, banisters
## Employer
- **Name:** VT Mobile Aerospace Engineering, Inc.
- **Location:** 2100 Aerospace Drive, MOBILE, ALABAMA, 36615
- **NAICS:** 488190
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was conducting maintenance work in the cargo area of an aircraft. The employee was leaning on the guardrails of the elevated work platform when the hinge on the guardrail failed and the employee fell approximately 4 feet, landing on a work bench below and injuring his lower back.

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