# Fractures at Air Design Systems Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024076420` · 7/16/2024 · PENSACOLA, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Trucks  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Strapping, bands
## Employer
- **Name:** Air Design Systems Inc.
- **Location:** 400 Lurton Street, PENSACOLA, FLORIDA, 32505
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing in the bed of a utility truck and was loading a PVC pipe onto a rack in the back of the truck. The employee was pulling the PVC pipe when a strap came loose and he fell backward to the ground. The employee sustained a fractured vertebra.

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