# Fractures at Akers Packaging Service Group
> OSHA SIR `2019066553` · 6/28/2019 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
- **Secondary source:** Rope, twine, string
## Employer
- **Name:** Akers Packaging Service Group
- **Location:** 1037 East 87th Atreet, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60619
- **NAICS:** 322211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was closing overhead dock doors when the rope attached to the bottom of the door broke and the employee fell off the loading dock to the ground. The employee suffered a cracked vertebra in the neck.

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