# Fractures at Cora-Texas Mfg. Co., Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020098799` · 9/16/2020 · WHITE CASTLE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
- **Source:** Catwalks
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Cora-Texas Mfg. Co., Inc.
- **Location:** 32505 Highway 1, WHITE CASTLE, LOUISIANA, 70788
- **NAICS:** 488510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking on an elevated walkway approximately 20 feet high to reach a camera that needed repair. As he walked past another employee who was also walking on the walkway, he fell through an opening in the hand rail. The employee sustained a broken right arm, a fractured L-4 vertebra and a laceration to the face that require stitches. The employee required surgery to repair a fracture.

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