# Fractures at General Dynamics Ordnance And Tactical Systems, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023109682` · 10/19/2023 · GARLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall onto or against object on same level, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Racks-garment and other
## Employer
- **Name:** General Dynamics Ordnance And Tactical Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** 1200 North Glenbrook Drive, GARLAND, TEXAS, 75040
- **NAICS:** 332993
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing an insert in the tool head of a CNC machine. The employee had stepped up approximately 28 inches onto the door track of the machine. When the employee went to step back down to the floor, they lost balance and fell backward onto a rack of metal parts. The employee sustained a compression fracture to the spine.

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