# Fractures (except skull fractures) and concussions at Great Lakes Components, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018010265` · 1/9/2018 · WAUWATOSA, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and neck
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures (except skull fractures) and concussions
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
- **Secondary source:** Crowbars
## Employer
- **Name:** Great Lakes Components, LLC
- **Location:** 11500 W. Burleigh St, WAUWATOSA, WISCONSIN, 53222
- **NAICS:** 321992
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to unload panelized walls from a flatbed semitrailer. He was using a pry bar to separate the wall panels when the pry bar slipped out, causing the employee to fall backwards from the semitrailer. The employee struck the ground, suffering fractured neck vertebrae, a concussion, and bleeding from  the mouth and ears.

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