# Fractures at AAA Cooper Transportation
> OSHA SIR `2025088405` · 8/22/2025 · ABILENE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s) and knee(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Trucks  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** AAA Cooper Transportation
- **Location:** 290 Cypress St., ABILENE, TEXAS, 79601
- **NAICS:** 484110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had just placed a pallet on a lift gate attached to the rear of a trailer. He was reaching for the switch to lower the lift gate when he fell off it, landing on the ground and suffering a broken left kneecap and left ankle.

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