# Fractures at Ground Zero Storm Shelters
> OSHA SIR `2015086195` · 8/27/2015 · PERRY, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Metal plates, metal panels
## Employer
- **Name:** Ground Zero Storm Shelters
- **Location:** 1300 W Hwy 77, PERRY, OKLAHOMA, 73077
- **NAICS:** 332420
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was tack welding the steel walls on a manufactured storm shelter.  The tacks failed and one of the steel walls fell on him fracturing his L2 vertebrae.

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