# Fractures at Southwestern Public Service Company
> OSHA SIR `20161110501` · 11/8/2016 · AMARILLO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
## Employer
- **Name:** Southwestern Public Service Company
- **Location:** 304 N. Nelson, AMARILLO, TEXAS, 79108
- **NAICS:** 221121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was exiting the driver side of a line truck when he slipped off the top step and fell to the pavement, fracturing his vertebrae.

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