# Fractures at Rodney Wiatrek
> OSHA SIR `2021053869` · 5/11/2021 · STOCKDALE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Trenchers
- **Secondary source:** Ground, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Rodney Wiatrek
- **Location:** 379 FM 538, STOCKDALE, TEXAS, 78160
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on top of a trencher to put a cover on its exhaust manifold when he slipped off the trencher and fell 5.5 feet to the ground, resulting in five broken ribs, a lacerated spleen, and a lacerated liver. It was raining at the time.

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