# Fractures at Lula-Westfield, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025032311` · 3/11/2025 · PAINCOURTVILLE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by rolling, sliding, or shifting objects non-running
- **Source:** Parts and materials  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Tank, bin, vat interiors  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Lula-Westfield, LLC
- **Location:** Hwy 1005, PAINCOURTVILLE, LOUISIANA, 70391
- **NAICS:** 311311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was welding pipe in a pan vessel. While the employee was repositioning, a component inside the vessel shifted. The employee was wedged between the component and the vessel and suffered two broken back vertebrae. He was hospitalized.

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