# Fractures at Special Metals Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016043469` · 4/26/2016 · MOORE, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple back regions
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall from collapsing structure or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
## Employer
- **Name:** Special Metals Inc.
- **Location:** 2009 S. Broadway, MOORE, OKLAHOMA, 73160
- **NAICS:** 423510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was making deliveries from a flatbed trailer. As he was climbing down the attached ladder, a weld broke and he fell backward onto the hard surface of the lot, lacerating his head and left ear and fracturing his spine. He was hospitalized overnight.

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