# Fractures at Linkletter & Sons, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021010728` · 1/26/2021 · ATHENS, MAINE
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
- **Source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
- **Secondary source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
## Employer
- **Name:** Linkletter & Sons, Inc.
- **Location:** 112 Harmony Road, ATHENS, MAINE, 04912
- **NAICS:** 113310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The employee was working from a scissor lift to fix an overhead garage door. A trailer backed into the scissor lift and knocked it over. The employee struck the concrete garage floor and suffered three or four fractured vertebrae.

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