# Fractures at Ring Container Technologies Inc
> OSHA SIR `2024098193` · 9/4/2024 · SAINT JOSEPH, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back  lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Other metal, wood, and special material machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Ring Container Technologies Inc
- **Location:** 1 Ring Drive, SAINT JOSEPH, MISSOURI, 64503
- **NAICS:** 326160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on top of a blender machine to perform preventative maintenance when he lost his balance and jumped off the machine, landing on his feet on the ground 4.5 feet below. The employee sustained a fracture to his L5 vertebra.

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