Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment unspecified · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Bruckner's Truck & Equipment, 7600 Greenwood Road, SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA 71119
on — Fractures , affecting the Back thoracic region.
Final narrative
An employee was going to take a truck for a test drive. He was exiting the truck and stepped on the top step. The step came loose and caused the employee to fall to the concrete ground. His head hit the bottom of the step of the truck next to him. The employee was hospitalized with a compression fracture to his T12 vertebra.
Hospitalized Back thoracic region Trucks unspecified
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