# Fractures at Andy's Equipment Exchange Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025054620` · 5/16/2025 · ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Rib(s), oblique area
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Dimensional lumber
- **Secondary source:** Non-riding pallet jack
## Employer
- **Name:** Andy's Equipment Exchange Inc.
- **Location:** 959 West 12th Street, ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA, 16501
- **NAICS:** 532490
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading a delivery truck. There were two 4x4 pieces of wood stacked on top of one another in the truck. The employee stepped on the wood, lost his balance, and fell from standing height onto a pallet jack inside the truck. His back hit the pallet jack and he sustained fractured ribs. The employee was hospitalized.

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