# Fractures at NextGen Ground Handling Services
> OSHA SIR `2024098523` · 9/13/2024 · AUSTIN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Airport utility vehicle  powered
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** NextGen Ground Handling Services
- **Location:** 9401 Cargo Avenue Suite 600, AUSTIN, TEXAS, 78719
- **NAICS:** 488119
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing a ladder attached to a mobile cargo loader that was pulled up next to an aircraft. The employee was approximately 5-6 feet above the ground when he lost his balance and fell to the ground, resulting in three broken ribs and two broken vertebrae.

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