# Multiple sprains, strains, tears at Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital
> OSHA SIR `2019010909` · 1/25/2019 · DIXON, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple sprains, strains, tears
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall, slip, trip, unspecified
- **Source:** Stairs, steps-outdoors
- **Secondary source:** Ice, sleet, snow
## Employer
- **Name:** Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital
- **Location:** 403 EAST FIRST STREET, DIXON, ILLINOIS, 61021
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On January 25, 2019, at approximately 4:29 a.m., an employee fell on icy/snowy cement stairs while walking to his car to leave work for the day. He was hospitalized with syncope, lower back pain, and sprains/strains to the lower back, left hip, left knee, and left femur.

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