# Traumatic injuries to spinal cord, unspecified at Pappas Restaurants, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20181111691` · 11/13/2018 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Traumatic injuries to spinal cord, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Pappas Restaurants, Inc.
- **Location:** 7050 FM 1960, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77069
- **NAICS:** 722511
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using an 8-foot step ladder to access boxes stored on an upper shelf when the employee fell from the ladder to the floor, suffering a lumbar spine injury.

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