# Fractures at J. R. Simplot Company
> OSHA SIR `2020021403` · 2/12/2020 · GRAND VIEW, IDAHO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
- **Source:** Bucket, front-end, end, and pay loaders
## Employer
- **Name:** J. R. Simplot Company
- **Location:** 1301 Highway 67, GRAND VIEW, IDAHO, 83624
- **NAICS:** 112112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking to her truck to retrieve a set of gloves while preparing for feedlot bedding operations. A front loader emptied a load onto the bedding wagon. The loader then backed up and the employee was knocked to the ground by the loader's bucket, and then run over. The employee sustained fractures to five lower vertebrae.

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