# Fractures and dislocations at Yoder Machinery Sales
> OSHA SIR `2022064755` · 6/2/2022 · HOLLAND, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and dislocations
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
- **Secondary source:** Slings
## Employer
- **Name:** Yoder Machinery Sales
- **Location:** 1500 Holloway Road, HOLLAND, OHIO, 43528
- **NAICS:** 423830
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On June 2, 2022, an employee was in a scissor lift, loading a piece of industrial equipment onto a flatbed truck. The employee was disconnecting a four-leg sling when one of its legs caught the bottom of the scissor lift, which was lifted about 8 inches. The employee fell from the scissor lift to the ground 10-12 feet below and suffered fractured vertebrae, a dislocated thumb, and a cracked rib. The employee was hospitalized.

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