# Fractures at AMG Vanadium, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `20221210745` · 12/10/2022 · ZANESVILLE, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Highway vehicle, motorized, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Embankments
## Employer
- **Name:** AMG Vanadium, LLC.
- **Location:** 2295 Innovation Way, ZANESVILLE, OHIO, 43701
- **NAICS:** 331112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a company-owned vehicle on a roadway inside a worksite. As the employee was driving downhill, the vehicle brakes failed and the vehicle struck an embankment at the bottom of the hill. The employee sustained a vertebra fracture in his back and was hospitalized.

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