# Fractures at RailWorks Track Systems
> OSHA SIR `2022021494` · 2/16/2022 · LAKEVILLE, MINNESOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Wood, lumber, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** RailWorks Track Systems
- **Location:** 8485 210th Street West, LAKEVILLE, MINNESOTA, 55044
- **NAICS:** 488210
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

A crew was lifting a bridge with bottle jacks so they could remove and replace floor-to-ceiling joists. Soil at one end gave way, causing a wall of lumber to collapse on the foreman who was observing them. The foreman suffered fractured vertebrae.

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