# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at Blattner Energy
> OSHA SIR `2015118419` · 11/9/2015 · MIRANDO CITY, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck and back
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Parts and materials, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Cranes, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Blattner Energy
- **Location:** 10 miles South, MIRANDO CITY, TEXAS, 78369
- **NAICS:** 221115
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was handling a windmill edge protector as it was being lifted by a crane. The edge protector fell on top of him as he stood underneath it, fracturing his neck and compressing his spine vertebrae.

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