# Fractures at SiteOne Landscape Supply, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20241110993` · 11/26/2024 · BASTROP, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the neck
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Bucket, front-end, and pay loaders
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** SiteOne Landscape Supply, LLC
- **Location:** 630 FM 969, BASTROP, TEXAS, 78602
- **NAICS:** 541320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On November 26, 2024, an employee was climbing down from the cab of a loader. As he backed out he struck his head on the seam of the cab rollbar resulting in a scalp laceration. He stepped back on the loader platform, lost his footing, and fell approximately 9 feet to the ground, landing on his back. The employee suffered fractured vertebrae in his neck.

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