# Fractures at Dana Container, Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2017076781` · 7/20/2017 · UPTON, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Train, locomotive, rail car, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Dana Container, Incorporated
- **Location:** 25 Maple Avenue, UPTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 01568
- **NAICS:** 561910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was descending a rail tank car ladder while carrying a sample dip apparatus when he slipped and fell to the gravel roadway, landing on his back. He broke his L1 vertebra.

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