# Fractures at Simplot AB Retail, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023043388` · 4/16/2023 · HOLLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Ran off driving surface, nonroadway
- **Source:** Lawn mowers-riding
- **Secondary source:** Culverts, nonconfined ditches
## Employer
- **Name:** Simplot AB Retail, Inc.
- **Location:** 421 N. Franklin Street, HOLLAND, TEXAS, 76534
- **NAICS:** 424910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a riding mower to mow grass across from a company location. While mowing around a storm drainage ditch and culvert, the mower went off the culvert and the employee was thrown from the mower. The employee sustained transverse fractures of the L1, L2, and L3 vertebrae and was hospitalized.

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