# Fractures at The Toro Company
> OSHA SIR `2018010551` · 1/17/2018 · TOMAH, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Machine platforms
## Employer
- **Name:** The Toro Company
- **Location:** 200 Sime Avenue, TOMAH, WISCONSIN, 54660
- **NAICS:** 333112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee climbed onto a mower that was raised 18 inches on a final assembly platform to install a steering wheel. As the employee was climbing down from the mower, her foot missed the 18-inch platform and she fell to the concrete plant floor, fracturing her L4 vertebra.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*