# Fractures at Automatic Fire Protection
> OSHA SIR `2023032520` · 3/21/2023 · SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Pressurized water-blast
## Employer
- **Name:** Automatic Fire Protection
- **Location:** Merchant's Ice-Eddie's Wprkshop, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, 78205
- **NAICS:** 922160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a ladder, tightening bolts to stop a system coupling from leaking. A bolt broke, and the water flow knocked him off the ladder. He suffered a broken right wrist and right hip.

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