# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at United States Steel Corporation - Granite City Works
> OSHA SIR `2023075868` · 7/2/2023 · GRANITE CITY, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall through surface or existing opening, unspecified
- **Source:** Confined spaces, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** United States Steel Corporation - Granite City Works
- **Location:** 20th and State Streets, GRANITE CITY, ILLINOIS, 62040
- **NAICS:** 331111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was inside a motor/concrete pit of a roughing mill to put a cover on the motor. The employee reached to grab a ladder that was handed to him by a co-worker. He had one foot on a 3x3 fiberglass grating cover that was in the middle of the pit when the grate slid, causing the employee to fall through. The employee sustained a back injury.

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