# Fractures at Neblock Inc
> OSHA SIR `2024087286` · 8/8/2024 · ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Rib(s), oblique area
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport powered, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Fall protection equipment
## Employer
- **Name:** Neblock Inc
- **Location:** 1001 South Pierpont Avenue, ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, 61102
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping to change a hose on an excavator. He was in the raised bucket of a powered industrial vehicle (PIV) when his 15-inch adjustable wrench slipped off a nut. He lost his balance and fell about 8 feet to the ground. The employee sustained injuries to their neck and back, a laceration to his head, and fractured ribs. A fall arrest system was not used at the time of the fall.

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