# Fractures at Gregory Everson
> OSHA SIR `20241110305` · 11/5/2024 · GRANBY, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Tables, desks, work surfaces
- **Secondary source:** Constructed surface irregularity
## Employer
- **Name:** Gregory Everson
- **Location:** 36 Kellogg Street, GRANBY, MASSACHUSETTS, 01033
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee assisted with lifting a sand/salt spreader out of a truck onto a steel stand for work to be done on the sander chain. The employee went to unhook the chain from the excavator bucket. They climbed a fiberglass/steel ladder and then got onto the grate of the sand/salt spreader. The employee fell 8 feet from the grate to the gravel driveway. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to their vertebrae, ribs, and pelvis.

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