# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at Missouri American Water
> OSHA SIR `2023032370` · 3/15/2023 · SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
- **Secondary source:** Containers-variable restraint, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Missouri American Water
- **Location:** 9537 Dulles Ct, SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI, 63123
- **NAICS:** 221310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading 6-inch ductile iron pipe from the back of a flat-bed truck. The load shifted, causing the employee to fall off the back of the truck. The pipe then fell on top of the employee. He was hospitalized with broken ribs, a broken pelvis, and a collapsed lung.

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