# Fractures at Friend Tire Company
> OSHA SIR `2021043313` · 4/21/2021 · OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Friend Tire Company
- **Location:** 5500 W. Reno Ave, Suite 400, OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA, 73127
- **NAICS:** 423130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on a pallet of tires on an order picker. The pallet fell and the employee fell with it, striking the tires and the ground below. The employee suffered three broken back vertebrae and broken ribs.

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