# Herniated discs at Bertog Landscape Co
> OSHA SIR `2021087275` · 8/25/2021 · WHEELING, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Herniated discs
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Containers-nonpressurized, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Bertog Landscape Co
- **Location:** 625 Wheeling Road, WHEELING, ILLINOIS, 60090
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading plant material onto a truck. The plant's 50-pound, 20-gallon plastic container broke, causing the employee to lose his balance and fall off the truck. He suffered three herniated disks in his neck.

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