# Fractures at Countryside Feed LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024043671` · 4/26/2024 · RAMONA, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back  thoracic region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Trucks with other mounted machinery, equipment  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Countryside Feed LLC
- **Location:** 1611 100 Ave, RAMONA, KANSAS, 67475
- **NAICS:** 311119
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had just unloaded feed from a truck and blew out the empty truck with an air hose while approximately 11 feet above the ground. The employee was then descending the attached ladder when they fell to the ground, sustaining compound fractures to their T1, T2, and T3 vertebrae.

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