# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Terra Structures
> OSHA SIR `2020054747` · 5/21/2020 · KUTZTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Structural metal materials, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Terra Structures
- **Location:** Stump Road and Rt 78, KUTZTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, 19530
- **NAICS:** 237990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting a soil nail to remove a whaler from an excavation protective system when the whaler tipped over onto him. The employee suffered a spinal injury and was hospitalized.

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