# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at UPS
> OSHA SIR `2020021859` · 2/25/2020 · EAST SYRACUSE, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** UPS
- **Location:** 6975 Northern Boulevard, EAST SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, 13057
- **NAICS:** 492110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was clearing a jam on a conveyor belt, slipped, and fell 1.5 feet to the floor sustaining a back injury. The employee was hospitalized.

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