# Fractures at Brendle Sprinkler Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024109155` · 10/1/2024 · CENTRE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Brendle Sprinkler Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 701 Commerce Street, CENTRE, ALABAMA, 35960
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

After making a repair to sprinkler piping, an employee was being lowered to the ground via a forklift. They fell approximately 15 feet, struck the mast of the forklift and a cotton bale, and then fell to the warehouse floor. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to their face, left wrist, and left femur.

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