# Fractures at Munoz Trucking Corp
> OSHA SIR `20161211966` · 12/27/2016 · NEW YORK, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Munoz Trucking Corp
- **Location:** 615 Wesr 130th Street, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 10027
- **NAICS:** 562111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading soil into a truck when he noticed debris on top of the truck that was hindering the tarp from covering the load. He climbed a fixed ladder and was clearing the debris when he fell 10 feet to the ground below, fracturing his vertebrae.

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