# Fractures at United Materials of Great Falls, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021098282` · 9/25/2021 · GREAT FALLS, MONTANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
- **Secondary source:** Street, road, driveway-unpaved
## Employer
- **Name:** United Materials of Great Falls, Inc.
- **Location:** 2100 9th Avenue North, GREAT FALLS, MONTANA, 59403
- **NAICS:** 238120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on the driver-side front tire of a semi truck washing the windshield. He slipped off the tire and fell. He landed on the gravel road and his head hit the step of the truck. He suffered a broken lower-back vertebra and a head laceration that required stitches.

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