# Fractures at Frontier Cooperative
> OSHA SIR `2024053979` · 5/7/2024 · LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back  lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Portable ladders and stairs  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Frontier Cooperative
- **Location:** 2800 Lexington Avenue, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, 68504
- **NAICS:** 424510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a ladder investigating a leak on the grain elevator spout. The ladder slipped out and he fell backward approximately four feet to the bin deck and sustained a fractured L2 vertebra.

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