# Fractures at W. Brown Enterprises, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20211210637` · 12/10/2021 · VAN ALSTYNE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
- **Secondary source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** W. Brown Enterprises, Inc.
- **Location:** FM 2729 and Copeland Ln., VAN ALSTYNE, TEXAS, 75495
- **NAICS:** 237130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in a bucket truck's bucket, retrieving a device that had been left behind while telecommunications conduit was installed. The employee fell out of the bucket and suffered a broken vertebra.

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