# Fractures and soft tissue injuries at Central Valley Ag
> OSHA SIR `2024075905` · 7/1/2024 · HUNTER, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other upper extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and soft tissue injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Confined spaces  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Panels, sheets, plates  metal
## Employer
- **Name:** Central Valley Ag
- **Location:** 110 S. Gaylord Street, HUNTER, KANSAS, 67452
- **NAICS:** 424910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking into the control galley room on the ground level. On the floor was a removeable steel plate (60 x 90) that covers the boot pit. The steel plate slipped when the employee stepped on it causing them to fall approximately 22 feet down into the boot pit, landing on the concrete ground. The employee was hospitalized with two fractured vertebrae, bilateral arm fractures, a left elbow dislocation, and an abdominal injury.

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