# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Longhorn Mulching, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021086518` · 8/4/2021 · ZACHARY, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Sudden start or stop, nonroadway
- **Source:** Bulldozers
## Employer
- **Name:** Longhorn Mulching, Inc.
- **Location:** 18767 Plank Rd, ZACHARY, LOUISIANA, 70791
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a dozer in an open field. The dozer's blade got caught at a drainage ditch and the dozer stopped suddenly. The employee was thrown from the seat to the floor of the cab and suffered a spinal injury. He was hospitalized.

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