# Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified at VCNA PRAIRIE, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2015041736` · 4/3/2015 · ADDISON, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-improvised staging
- **Secondary source:** Hopper interiors
## Employer
- **Name:** VCNA PRAIRIE, INC.
- **Location:** 799 IL Rte. 53, ADDISON, ILLINOIS, 60101
- **NAICS:** 327310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A maintenance employee was repairing a mixer discharge hopper from a plank that had been laid across the hopper. The employee was sitting on the plank and working from it. The employee fell through the boot of the hopper, approximately 14 feet to the concrete floor below.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*