# Fractures at Ahern Rentals
> OSHA SIR `2022076175` · 7/15/2022 · FORT WORTH, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Upper and lower limb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Ran off driving surface, nonroadway
- **Source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
- **Secondary source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Ahern Rentals
- **Location:** 2301 Southeast Loop 820, FORT WORTH, TEXAS, 76119
- **NAICS:** 532412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was preparing to load two scissor lifts onto a truck. He had loaded the first one, and was driving the second one up the ramp of the truck, when he and the lift fell off the truck to the ground about 6 feet below. He suffered a broken femur and a broken arm.

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