# Fractures at Effingham Equity
> OSHA SIR `20181010270` · 10/4/2018 · LOVINGTON, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck bump, hole, rough terrain on driving surface, nonroadway
- **Source:** Spreading machinery-agricultural
- **Secondary source:** Ground irregularity
## Employer
- **Name:** Effingham Equity
- **Location:** 2147 CR1500 E, LOVINGTON, ILLINOIS, 61937
- **NAICS:** 424910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

At 4:45 p.m. on October 4, 2018, an employee was using a self-propelled fertilizer spreader to spread dry fertilizer on a customer's farm. He struck a washout in the field, and the spreader's air-ride seat bottomed out. He suffered a compression fracture of his lumbar spine and was hospitalized.

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