# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at St. Mary's Regional Medical Center
> OSHA SIR `2020021283` · 2/9/2020 · LEWISTON, MAINE
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Injury by other person-unintentional or intent unknown, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Patient
## Employer
- **Name:** St. Mary's Regional Medical Center
- **Location:** 93 Campus Avenue, LEWISTON, MAINE, 04240
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping a discharged patient walk out of the emergency room. The patient started to fall and the employee went to brace the patient using her foot and felt a pop in her back. The employee was hospitalized with a back injury.

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