# Fractures and soft tissue injuries at Overhead Door Company of Grand Island
> OSHA SIR `2024054681` · 5/29/2024 · GRAND ISLAND, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and soft tissue injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Portable ladders and stairs  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Overhead Door Company of Grand Island
- **Location:** 2812 West Old Highway 30, GRAND ISLAND, NEBRASKA, 68803
- **NAICS:** 238290
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were changing a broken spring on the inside of a storage unit. The injured employee was taking a pipe wrench off the torsion tube when the pipe wrench slipped off the tube, causing the employee to fall backward from the second rung of a 6-foot ladder. They fell to the concrete floor and landed on their right foot, resulting in a dislocation and fracture to the right ankle.

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