# Fractures at Twin City Fan
> OSHA SIR `2015129896` · 12/31/2015 · ELKTON, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple back regions
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Boxes, crates, cartons
- **Secondary source:** Fans, blowers-wall, floor, ceiling, ventilation
## Employer
- **Name:** Twin City Fan
- **Location:** 401 East Warehouse Street, ELKTON, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57026
- **NAICS:** 333413
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was severely injured and hospitalized after she fell from the top of a load of industrial fans inside the back of a semi-trailer.  The fan fell onto the employee. The employee suffered a T12-L2 back injury requiring a two-level fusion.

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