# Fractures at Canam Steel Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2016065681` · 6/24/2016 · SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Trailers
## Employer
- **Name:** Canam Steel Corporation
- **Location:** 14 Harmich Road, SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY, 07080
- **NAICS:** 332312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping to load a trailer in the loading bay and was standing at the rear end of the trailer on the driver's side. He was using a piece of wood on the edge of the trailer bed to help locate the center and took a step forward. He then fell into the four-step stairway and fractured four ribs.

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