# Fractures at Western Dairy Transport, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024098677` · 9/17/2024 · LAKE NORDEN, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Other semi, tractor-trailer
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Western Dairy Transport, LLC
- **Location:** 408 Dakota Street, LAKE NORDEN, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57248
- **NAICS:** 484121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee pulled his tractor-trailer up to the weigh scale monitor at the plant to enter information. He could not reach the keypad so he opened the cab door and stood on the railing to enter the information. He then went to push himself back into the truck and when he pushed off the swivel monitor it turned and he fell three feet to the ground. He suffered fractured vertebrae and a contusion to the back of his head.

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