# Fractures at Essendant Business Essentials, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016031963` · 3/4/2016 · WEST COXSACKIE, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Ladders-fixed
## Employer
- **Name:** Essendant Business Essentials, Inc.
- **Location:** 12089 Route 9W, WEST COXSACKIE, NEW YORK, 12192
- **NAICS:** 423210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing up a fixed ladder to clear a material jam on a conveyor when his hand slipped, causing him to lose balance and fall from the third rung up from the floor. He fell standing up, but fractured his lower left leg.

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