# Fractures at State Tractor Trucking
> OSHA SIR `2024032480` · 3/19/2024 · OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck and upper extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Vehicle trailers, trailing units
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** State Tractor Trucking
- **Location:** North of 69 Highway and 119th, OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS, 66013
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a trailer next to a jersey barrier to deliver bridge beams. The employee stepped from the trailer to the top of a jersey barrier, missed the barrier and fell over the bridge 15 feet to the ground. The employee sustained a head laceration, a fractured finger, and C2-C3 vertebrae fractures.

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