# Fractures at Continental Glass Systems, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025032643` · 3/20/2025 · HIALEAH, FLORIDA
## 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:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Continental Glass Systems, LLC
- **Location:** 325 WEST 74TH PLACE, HIALEAH, FLORIDA, 33014
- **NAICS:** 238150
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was throwing trash into a dumpster while he was inside a cage on a forklift. The employee lost his balance and fell 3 feet to the concrete ground. The employee sustained fractured vertebrae and a scrape on their left elbow.

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