# Fractures at Northwest Cranberry, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024054517` · 5/22/2024 · PITTSVILLE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back  lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Rakes, pitchforks
- **Secondary source:** Bucket, front-end, and pay loaders
## Employer
- **Name:** Northwest Cranberry, LLC
- **Location:** 11114 Haycreek Rd, PITTSVILLE, WISCONSIN, 54466
- **NAICS:** 111334
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assisting with loading a cranberry rake onto a flatbed truck. The rake fell off the forks of an end loader and landed on the employee, breaking vertebrae in his lower back.

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