# Fractures at Gold Star FS, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022109277` · 10/22/2022 · COAL VALLEY, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck bump, hole, rough terrain on driving surface, nonroadway
- **Source:** Spreading machinery-agricultural
- **Secondary source:** Ground irregularity
## Employer
- **Name:** Gold Star FS, Inc.
- **Location:** 13185 Hwy 81, COAL VALLEY, ILLINOIS, 61240
- **NAICS:** 424910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On October 22, 2022, an employee was using a floater to apply dry fertilizer. The vehicle hit a small bump, then a ditch. It bounced, and the employee suffered a burst fracture to the L1 vertebra. The employee was hospitalized.

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