# Fractures at Mississippi Machinery
> OSHA SIR `2021053973` · 5/14/2021 · FLORENCE, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Dirt, earth
- **Secondary source:** Excavating machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Mississippi Machinery
- **Location:** 838 N. Church Street, FLORENCE, MISSISSIPPI, 39073
- **NAICS:** 532412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were installing a culvert. Dirt picked up in an excavator bucket loosened and fell onto an employee's back, causing a fracture.

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