# Fractures at US Forest Service
> OSHA SIR `2019088864` · 8/26/2019 · QUINCY, CALIFORNIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet
- **Source:** Raised natural structures, hills, mountains, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** US Forest Service
- **Location:** 159 Lawrence St, QUINCY, CALIFORNIA, 95971
- **NAICS:** 115310
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

Two employees were exploring an area within the forest and conducting a field botanical survey. The area included steep, rocky ground and talus slopes. One employee slipped/fell on the rocks of a slope and tumbled 45 feet toward a creek bed. The employee sustained head lacerations, fractures to the C-4  and C-5 vertebrae, and body bruising.

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