# Fractures at C. Harper Auto Group
> OSHA SIR `2025077002` · 7/18/2025 · BELLE VERNON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Rib(s), oblique area
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
- **Source:** Roadway vehicle  motorized, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Vehicle or mobile equipment failure
## Employer
- **Name:** C. Harper Auto Group
- **Location:** 100 Harper Drive, BELLE VERNON, PENNSYLVANIA, 15012
- **NAICS:** 441110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working to change the tires and brakes on a vehicle. He pulled the vehicle out of the bay. The brakes failed, and the car drifted backward into another bay where it pinned the injured employee against the arm of a vehicle lift. The injured employee sustained seven fractured ribs on his left side.

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