# Fractures at Ridgeline Renewables LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023032264` · 3/13/2023 · WILLIAMSPORT, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Pile drivers, tamping machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Ridgeline Renewables LLC
- **Location:** 11524 US-22 West, WILLIAMSPORT, OHIO, 43164
- **NAICS:** 221114
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On March 13, 2023, at approximately 4:45 PM, an employee was operating a vertical pile installation machine to install a lower guide. When he returned upright, he contacted the machine's head plate and sustained a C6/C7 cervical fracture and lost consciousness temporarily.

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