# Fractures at Bancroft Contracting Corporation
> OSHA SIR `20221210594` · 12/6/2022 · ANDOVER, MAINE
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Bancroft Contracting Corporation
- **Location:** Middle Dam (Richardson Lake), ANDOVER, MAINE, 04216
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a variable reach forklift to transport an 8" x 8" x 14' timber at a jobsite. The right-side tires entered the grass shoulder at the edge of the road, and the forklift tipped over a three-foot rock dike. The employee sustained a fractured T11 vertebra, and possible fractures to four ribs.

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