# Fractures at Machine Technology & Field Service
> OSHA SIR `20171111074` · 11/17/2017 · NORTH LIMA, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Jump from collapsing structure or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Drilling machines, drilling augers
## Employer
- **Name:** Machine Technology & Field Service
- **Location:** Speedway Gas Station, NORTH LIMA, OHIO, 44452
- **NAICS:** 238120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a concrete drill rig when the fast-acting auger valve was activated, causing the rig to push downward into the earth and tip over. The employee jumped from the tipping drill rig and suffered cracked vertebrae.

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