# Fractures at Action Plumbing
> OSHA SIR `2017076368` · 7/11/2017 · BOLINGBROOK, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Action Plumbing
- **Location:** 401 Janes Avenue, BOLINGBROOK, ILLINOIS, 60440
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were moving hot water heaters from the ground to a third floor balcony. While moving the equipment in a box on a forklift, an employee stepped into the box to retrieve the last hot water heater and the box fell off the forklift. The employee fell three stories and fractured vertebrae.

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