# Fractures at Bruckner's Truck & Equipment
> OSHA SIR `2025054787` · 5/21/2025 · SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back  thoracic region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  unspecified
- **Source:** Trucks  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Bruckner's Truck & Equipment
- **Location:** 7600 Greenwood Road, SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA, 71119
- **NAICS:** 336390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was going to take a truck for a test drive. He was exiting the truck and stepped on the top step. The step came loose and caused the employee to fall to the concrete ground. His head hit the bottom of the step of the truck next to him. The employee was hospitalized with a compression fracture to his T12 vertebra.

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