# Fractures at Gethmann Construction
> OSHA SIR `2025032677` · 3/20/2025 · BLAIR, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to slip or trip
- **Source:** Other constructed surface
- **Secondary source:** Ice, sleet, snow, hail
## Employer
- **Name:** Gethmann Construction
- **Location:** 237 Wetlands Road, BLAIR, NEBRASKA, 68008
- **NAICS:** 236115
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was clearing snow and ice in the lot around a shop. He was working between a pickup truck and a flatbed truck, pushing snow off the trucks so he could move them to clear the area around them. He slipped on a patch of snow-covered ice, fell, and landed on his back. He suffered broken vertebrae.

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