# Fractures at CIT Trucks, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2016098877` · 9/19/2016 · GRAYSLAKE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Highway vehicle, motorized, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** CIT Trucks, LLC
- **Location:** 22570 West Highway 60, GRAYSLAKE, ILLINOIS, 60030
- **NAICS:** 423110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

After repairing a diesel truck, an employee climbed off the truck and stepped on the battery box. The lid on the battery box was unsecured, causing the employee to fall 2 to 3 feet onto the concrete floor below. He also struck the battery box during the fall. He fractured several vertebrae and a left rib.

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