# Fractures at MERS Goodwill
> OSHA SIR `2025076375` · 7/2/2025 · SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the neck
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Other constructed surface
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** MERS Goodwill
- **Location:** 1727 Locust Street, SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI, 63103
- **NAICS:** 453310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unpacking donations from a donation bin and moving a portable canopy when he lost his balance and fell forward. The employee struck his head on the concrete and sustained a fractured C4 vertebra and a laceration to the forehead that required stitches.

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