# Fractures at Golden West Oil Company
> OSHA SIR `2018077776` · 7/31/2018 · NEW BRAUNFELS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Shoulder(s) and arm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Street, road, driveway-paved
## Employer
- **Name:** Golden West Oil Company
- **Location:** 4320 South IH-35, NEW BRAUNFELS, TEXAS, 78132
- **NAICS:** 424720
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on the bed of a truck, moving a drum and then repositioning a pallet jack to be unloaded for charging overnight. The lift gate had been lowered; as the employee walked backward to move the pallet jack, he fell off the end of the truck to the concrete driveway about 3 feet below. He broke his right elbow in five places, also suffering a broken shoulder.

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