# Fractures at TC Industries, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017098946` · 9/18/2017 · CRYSTAL LAKE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** TC Industries, Inc.
- **Location:** 3703 S. Route 31, CRYSTAL LAKE, ILLINOIS, 60012
- **NAICS:** 332811
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On September 18, 2017, at approximately 11:55 p.m., employees were re-installing furnace ducts after replacing the duct rollers. The injured employee was working from an unguarded service platform located about 6 to 7 feet above the adjacent floor level when he fell and struck his lower back against a guardrail that was temporarily placed below the service platform. He fractured his vertebrae and was hospitalized.

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