# Fractures at Cleaver-Brooks Sales and Service, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021087263` · 8/25/2021 · CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Pliers, tongs
## Employer
- **Name:** Cleaver-Brooks Sales and Service, Inc.
- **Location:** 7101 S Padre Island Drive, CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, 78412
- **NAICS:** 238290
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on the second or third rung of an A-frame ladder, holding a piece of sheet metal and using pliers to put tension on it. The rubber grip on the pliers came off and the employee fell, suffering lower back fractures.

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