# Fractures at Belleville Shoe Manufacturing Company
> OSHA SIR `2022010771` · 1/26/2022 · BELLEVILLE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Barrels, drums-except pressurized
## Employer
- **Name:** Belleville Shoe Manufacturing Company
- **Location:** 100 Premier Drive, BELLEVILLE, ILLINOIS, 62220
- **NAICS:** 316210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was preparing to move a 55-gallon drum using a drum hand truck. While using the dolly to lift the drum, the employee lost balance and walked backward into another drum, which struck his lower back. He suffered broken vertebrae.

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