# Fractures at Lancaster Leaf Tobacco Company
> OSHA SIR `2016099024` · 9/23/2016 · LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA
## 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:** Containers, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Hoses
## Employer
- **Name:** Lancaster Leaf Tobacco Company
- **Location:** 207 Pitney Road, LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA, 17601
- **NAICS:** 312230
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning off a container when he tripped over an air hose in the dust containment room. He fell and hit his head on a rail, requiring hospitalization for two broken ribs, a back injury, and a cut above his left eye.

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