# Fractures at The Home Depot
> OSHA SIR `2023098775` · 9/22/2023 · OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
- **Source:** Floor, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Wire, cables-nonelectrical
## Employer
- **Name:** The Home Depot
- **Location:** 201 Home Depot Dr, OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI, 38655
- **NAICS:** 444130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting wire with a wire machine. He turned to walk away and tripped over a wire cable, causing him to fall and strike his head on metal racking. The employee sustained a head laceration as well as a non-displaced fracture to the C1 vertebra.

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