# Fractures at Pioneer Pole Buildings, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022109309` · 10/24/2022 · FALLS, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Shoulder(s) and back
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Ran off driving surface, nonroadway
- **Source:** Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, n.e.c
- **Secondary source:** Trailers
## Employer
- **Name:** Pioneer Pole Buildings, Inc.
- **Location:** 1683 Whites Ferry Road, FALLS, PENNSYLVANIA, 18615
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in the operator's basket of a telehandler, driving it off the back of a lowboy trailer. The telehandler slipped off the side of the trailer. The employee was ejected and fell to the ground, suffering several broken lower-back vertebrae and a broken right shoulder. He was hospitalized.

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