# Fractures at The Doe Run Resources Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2017010183` · 1/7/2017 · BOSS, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Crowbars
## Employer
- **Name:** The Doe Run Resources Corporation
- **Location:** The Doe Run Company Buick Resource Recycling Division, BOSS, MISSOURI, 65440
- **NAICS:** 331492
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to use a pry bar to pry up on the bail of a lead pot when the pry bar slipped, causing the employee to fall 6 to 8 feet to the ground. He landed on his left side, cracking four ribs and fracturing two vertebrae.

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