# Fractures at American Airlines
> OSHA SIR `2018010545` · 1/17/2018 · TULSA, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** American Airlines
- **Location:** 11711 E. Pine Street, TULSA, OKLAHOMA, 74114
- **NAICS:** 488119
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was putting a large box of foam insulation on the top shelf of a storage rack. He was extended over the top rail of the warehouse platform ladder. As he was pushing on the box, the ladder tipped over, and he fell approximately 4 feet to the shop floor, fracturing two vertebrae.

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