# Fractures at Western Sugar Cooperative
> OSHA SIR `2017098509` · 9/4/2017 · FORT MORGAN, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Jack-knifed or overturned, roadway
- **Source:** Excavating machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Western Sugar Cooperative
- **Location:** 18317 CO-144, FORT MORGAN, COLORADO, 80701
- **NAICS:** 311314
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was driving an excavator when the vehicle rolled off the road. The employee suffered fractured vertebrae and ribs, as well as an arm injury.

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