# Fractures at Toshiba Business Solutions, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021086999` · 8/17/2021 · AUSTIN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thoracic region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Photocopiers
- **Secondary source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Toshiba Business Solutions, Inc.
- **Location:** 1501 Dartmouth Ave, AUSTIN, TEXAS, 78757
- **NAICS:** 423420
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee and a co-worker were delivering a copier to a client. While using the stairs and a stair climber device for copiers, the machine fell and landed on the employee, who then fell down the stairwell. The employee suffered multilevel spinous process fractures from the T4-T10 levels that required hospitalization.

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