# Multiple surface wounds and bruises at Garden City Co-op Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017054564` · 5/19/2017 · DIGHTON, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple surface wounds and bruises
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Train, locomotive, rail car, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** High winds, gusts, turbulence
## Employer
- **Name:** Garden City Co-op Inc.
- **Location:** 136 S Tomahawk Road, DIGHTON, KANSAS, 67839
- **NAICS:** 424510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was closing lids on the top of railcars containing grain. Wind was blowing, causing him to lose balance and fall to the ground. He suffered bruises and abrasions to his head and back and soreness in his left knee.

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