# Fractures at Now Specialties, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021032589` · 3/26/2021 · AUSTIN, TEXAS
## 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:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Now Specialties, Inc.
- **Location:** 10414 Mc Kalla Pl., AUSTIN, TEXAS, 78758
- **NAICS:** 238190
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was filling up a boom lift with a 5-gallon diesel can. He fell from the top of the boom lift's wheel to the ground and his face hit the fuel can. He suffered a cut above his left eyebrow and nose from the fuel can, as well as a broken neck vertebra and a contusion to the right hand from the fall.

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