# Fractures at Westrock Mahrt Mill, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018021786` · 2/21/2018 · COTTONTON, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Stairs, steps-indoors
- **Secondary source:** Machine and appliance parts, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Westrock Mahrt Mill, LLC
- **Location:** 145 Highway 165, COTTONTON, ALABAMA, 36851
- **NAICS:** 322226
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was closing a chain valve when part of the valve fell off and struck his head. He then fell down a set of stairs, lacerating his face, fracturing his C7 vertebra, and fracturing his ribs.

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