# Fractures at Cherokee Nitrogen, L.L.C.
> OSHA SIR `2017021252` · 2/8/2017 · CHEROKEE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
## Employer
- **Name:** Cherokee Nitrogen, L.L.C.
- **Location:** 1080 Industrial Drive, CHEROKEE, ALABAMA, 35616
- **NAICS:** 325311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was terminating loading procedures on the top of a truck trailer when he fell from the trailer to the ground. He sustained a head laceration and broken sternum, requiring hospitalization.

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