# Fractures at American Piping Inspection
> OSHA SIR `2025010515` · 1/16/2025 · ENCINAL, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Pickup truck
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** American Piping Inspection
- **Location:** Springer - Nextera Location, ENCINAL, TEXAS, 78019
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was retrieving processed radiography film from the darkroom on his radiography pickup truck when he fell off the tailgate of the truck to the ground. The employee sustained several fractures to the left forearm.

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