# Fractures at Minnkota Power Cooperative
> OSHA SIR `2023098512` · 9/14/2023 · MANVEL, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to tripping on uneven surface
- **Source:** Ground irregularity
## Employer
- **Name:** Minnkota Power Cooperative
- **Location:** 48.105897, -97.155415, MANVEL, NORTH DAKOTA, 58256
- **NAICS:** 221121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was carrying 3-foot string glass insulator bells to hand off to the other employees in the bucket truck. As he was carrying the glass insulator bells, he took a step back and stepped on a chunk of dirt. The employee fell backward and landed on another set of bells that was behind him, resulting in fractures to a rib and three vertebrae.

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