# Fractures at Wabash National Corporation Trailer Center
> OSHA SIR `2017054418` · 5/15/2017 · SMITHTON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Liftgates
- **Secondary source:** Trailers
## Employer
- **Name:** Wabash National Corporation Trailer Center
- **Location:** 289 Dutch Hollow Road, SMITHTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 15479
- **NAICS:** 423110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to replace the lift gate on a 53-foot trailer. He removed two tall yellow jacks and then hit the pin in the lift gate cylinder. The gate fell on him and he was pinned in the squatting position with the lift gate on top of his back. He suffered compression fractures to his back.

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