# Fractures at Totran Transportation Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018099350` · 9/10/2018 · SANTA TERESA, NEW MEXICO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Structures, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Trailers
## Employer
- **Name:** Totran Transportation Services, Inc.
- **Location:** 4800 Avenida Creed, SANTA TERESA, NEW MEXICO, 88008
- **NAICS:** 484230
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was removing tie straps from freight in a trailer when he turned around and a securement stand slipped off the trailer, striking and fracturing two discs in his back.

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