# Fractures at Heart Hospital of Austin
> OSHA SIR `2024098685` · 9/17/2024 · AUSTIN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle or object propelled by another vehicle in nonroadway area
- **Source:** Roadway vehicle  motorized, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Tanks, bins, vats  except confined space
## Employer
- **Name:** Heart Hospital of Austin
- **Location:** 3801 N. Lamar Boulevard, AUSTIN, TEXAS, 78713
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was transporting a rolling bin of trash across the loading bay parking lot to a dumpster. The employee's field of view was limited to the right side of the bin when a vehicle that was backing up impacted the front-left corner of the bin. The bin fell to the right, causing the employee to fall to the ground and suffer a non-displaced spinal vertebral fracture that required hospitalization.

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