# Fractures at International-Matex Tank Terminals, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016043279` · 4/19/2016 · SAINT ROSE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and neck
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Structures, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Structural elements, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** International-Matex Tank Terminals, Inc.
- **Location:** 11842 River Road, SAINT ROSE, LOUISIANA, 70087
- **NAICS:** 424710
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were removing a loading arm from the loading platform and were using a rope to hold the loading arm in place. The rope snapped, which caused the arm to swing down and hit an employee in the chest. The blow knocked him off of the platform and onto the concrete below, a distance of approximately 11.5'. He fractured his neck vertebra and skull.

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