# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Don E. Bower Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021043333` · 4/22/2021 · BERWICK, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Don E. Bower Inc.
- **Location:** 1001 Commerce Drive, BERWICK, PENNSYLVANIA, 18603
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was tying down a crane boom onto a flatbed trailer. As he was on the flatbed, securing the boom with tiedowns, he lost his grip and fell about 5 feet. He hit a box trailer and then the gravel ground, suffering damaged vertebrae in the lower back.

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