# Fractures at AXION SPECIALTY CONTRACTING, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018099189` · 9/5/2018 · NORTON, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Structural elements, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Ceilings, walls, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** AXION SPECIALTY CONTRACTING, LLC
- **Location:** Commerce Way, NORTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 02766
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a lift into another room and had closed the room door when a sheet metal damper installed in the wall above the door fell from the ceiling and hit the employee's back, fracturing the C5 vertebra and compressing other vertebrae.

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