# Fractures at Carnes Frames, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20181112335` · 11/20/2018 · GUNTOWN, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
- **Secondary source:** Scrap, waste, debris, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Carnes Frames, Inc.
- **Location:** 1194 HWY 145, GUNTOWN, MISSISSIPPI, 38849
- **NAICS:** 321999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee opened a trailer's doors to dump a load of scrap material, then fell through an opening in a railing into an open wood pit. The employee suffered neck fractures, as well as a head laceration (from scrap wood in the pit) that required stitches.

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