# Fractures at Carmax
> OSHA SIR `2025054798` · 5/21/2025 · COLUMBUS, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Other semi, tractor-trailer
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Carmax
- **Location:** 2700 Farmers Drive, COLUMBUS, OHIO, 43235
- **NAICS:** 811192
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had been loading cars on a car transport truck. He lost his footing and fell from the upper deck of the transport truck. He landed on his back on the ground approximately 6 feet below. The employee sustained two fractured vertebrae.

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