# Fractures at Rogers Ready-Mix & Materials Inc
> OSHA SIR `2025043860` · 4/24/2025 · ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back  thoracic region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Cement and concrete mixer trucks
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Rogers Ready-Mix & Materials Inc
- **Location:** 5510 S. Mulford Road, ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, 61109
- **NAICS:** 327320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading cement powder and was climbing down the front of a bulk cement tanker when he lost his footing and fell, striking his back on the truck frame. The employee sustained a fractured T7 vertebra.

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