# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Pilgrim's Pride Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2015118675` · 11/16/2015 · DE QUEEN, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Pilgrim's Pride Corporation
- **Location:** 401 South 3rd Street, DE QUEEN, ARKANSAS, 71832
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had just finished working on top of a trailer. As he began stepping on the 20-foot aluminum ladder to get down, his foot slipped and kicked the ladder from underneath him. He fell 10.5 feet to the ground below, injuring his head and vertebrae. The employee's body harness was disconnected at the time of the incident.

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