# Fractures at Yarde Metals Inc
> OSHA SIR `2016054282` · 5/17/2016 · GAP, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
## Employer
- **Name:** Yarde Metals Inc
- **Location:** 5509 Lincoln Highway, GAP, PENNSYLVANIA, 17527
- **NAICS:** 423510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee tripped and fell off the back of a flatbed truck trailer, fracturing the L1 vertebra.

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