# Fractures at Superior Linen Service, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20231110665` · 11/18/2023 · TULSA, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Clothes washers
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Superior Linen Service, Inc.
- **Location:** 534 S. Rockford Avenue, TULSA, OKLAHOMA, 74120
- **NAICS:** 812331
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee climbed 3.5 feet onto a washer to change a valve on the back of the washer. As the employee was tightening the valve with a wrench, the wrench slipped and he fell backward off the washer. His back hit a breaker box before landing on the concrete floor. The employee suffered five fractured ribs.

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