# Fractures at GENERAL MOTORS
> OSHA SIR `2023098364` · 9/11/2023 · WENTZVILLE, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to tripping, unspecified
- **Source:** Floor, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** GENERAL MOTORS
- **Location:** 1500 East Route A, WENTZVILLE, MISSOURI, 63385
- **NAICS:** 336211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was conducting assembly line activities on the front driver's side of a van when she tripped and fell backward to the floor, landing on her back. The employee sustained a compression fracture to a vertebra.

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