# Fractures at A & B Business, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2021119497` · 11/3/2021 · SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** A & B Business, Inc
- **Location:** 1600 North A Avenue, SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57104
- **NAICS:** 424120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An A&B Business Solutions employee was standing on the forks of a forklift about 12 feet in the air. He stepped off the forks onto a wood pallet, then slipped and fell to the floor. He suffered two broken ribs and a crushed disk in the lower back and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

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