# Fractures (except skull fractures) and concussions at Saia LTL Freight
> OSHA SIR `20211210756` · 12/15/2021 · JONESBORO, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures (except skull fractures) and concussions
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
- **Secondary source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Saia LTL Freight
- **Location:** 8210 Jake Hunter Drive, JONESBORO, ARKANSAS, 72401
- **NAICS:** 484121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

At 9:10 a.m. on December 15, 2021, an employee fell off the rear catwalk of a tractor-trailer. He landed on his back and suffered a concussion, a head injury requiring stitches to the back of the head, four broken ribs, and two broken vertebrae in his back.

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