# Fractures at Chapman Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2015107932` · 10/23/2015 · PROCTOR, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other jump to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
## Employer
- **Name:** Chapman Corporation
- **Location:** Covestro Plant, PROCTOR, WEST VIRGINIA, 26055
- **NAICS:** 237120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On October 23, 2015, at approximately 1:00pm, a an employee was hospitalized after suffering a compression fracture to his back and laceration to his head.  The employee was driving an extendible boom manlift across a designated railroad crossing.  The machine malfunctioned and stopped with the bucket portion of the lift above the railroad tracks.  As a train arrived, the employee untied his harness and jumped from the bucket approximately 10' out and 6' down landing on a gravel surface.

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