# Fractures at Dresser Rand
> OSHA SIR `2017043116` · 4/6/2017 · EADS, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
- **Secondary source:** Cutting handtools-powered, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Dresser Rand
- **Location:** 3073 US Hwy 287, EADS, COLORADO, 81036
- **NAICS:** 238110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a pneumatic chipping gun to demolish a concrete foundation when the chipping gun fell from the employee's hands. As he tried to catch it, he fell 8 feet to the ground, suffering fractured vertebrae and a head laceration.

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