# Sprains, strains, tears  unspecified at Green Acres Lawn Care & Landscaping
> OSHA SIR `2025087623` · 8/2/2025 · ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Shoulder(s) and arm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Sprains, strains, tears  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Nonroadway noncollision  vehicle overturn
- **Source:** Spreaders, sprayers, application equipment
- **Secondary source:** Hills, mountains
## Employer
- **Name:** Green Acres Lawn Care & Landscaping
- **Location:** 2516 Whitehall Lane, ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, 61107
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working to get into a customer's back yard to fertilize with a stand-on fertilizer spreading machine. As the employee backed up the machine, its front tire dropped off a hill. The machine flipped over. The employee was thrown off it and landed on the ground on his right shoulder. He suffered muscle, fascia, and tendon strains in the shoulder and upper arm.

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