# Fractures at Dover Chemical Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2022076399` · 7/21/2022 · DOVER, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
- **Secondary source:** Structures and surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Dover Chemical Corporation
- **Location:** 3676 Davis Road, DOVER, OHIO, 44622
- **NAICS:** 325199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was replacing/repairing instrumentation on top of a storage tank. The employee fell from the tank onto the concrete secondary containment structure 12-15 feet below and suffered fractured back vertebrae.

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