# Fractures at Sun Mountain Lumber
> OSHA SIR `2024076780` · 7/26/2024 · DEER LODGE, MONTANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Trucks with other mounted machinery, equipment  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Sun Mountain Lumber
- **Location:** 181 Greenhouse Rd, DEER LODGE, MONTANA, 59722
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A truck driver climbed the ladder on the back of his chipper truck to check the level of product loaded. He slipped and fell 13-14 feet to the hard-packed dirt and gravel ground. His pelvis and lower back vertebrae were fractured. The employee was hospitalized.

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