# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at Defense Logistics Agency
> OSHA SIR `2016043455` · 4/25/2016 · ROBINS A F B, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Movable ladders, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Boxes, crates, cartons
## Employer
- **Name:** Defense Logistics Agency
- **Location:** 325 Byron Street, ROBINS A F B, GEORGIA, 31098
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

As an employee was removing a tube from a box while standing on a stair ladder, the box came off the shelf, causing the stair ladder and employee to fall 9.5 feet to the lower level. The employee landed on a box and broke his left hip, left wrist, and several left-side ribs; cut his spleen; and fractured his back vertebrae.

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