# Fractures at Evergy
> OSHA SIR `2024054482` · 5/22/2024 · KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Nonroadway noncollision  fall or jump from moving vehicle
- **Source:** Boom truck, cherry picker
- **Secondary source:** Slopes, embankments
## Employer
- **Name:** Evergy
- **Location:** 1200 Main Street, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, 64105
- **NAICS:** 237130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was utilizing an aerial bucket to repair the service drop at a residential home. The truck that the arial bucket is attached to was parked on a slope and began to move. The employee was ejected from the bucket and landed on the ground, sustaining two back fractures.

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