# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at CHS Eastern Farmers Cooperative
> OSHA SIR `20161110575` · 11/10/2016 · WORTHING, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Ladders-fixed
## Employer
- **Name:** CHS Eastern Farmers Cooperative
- **Location:** 47017 SD Hwy 44, WORTHING, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57077
- **NAICS:** 424510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

After checking sulfur levels in a fertilizer building, an employee fell while descending a fixed wooden ladder and sustained a broken pelvis, broken ribs, broken C-3 vertebra, and internal bleeding as a result of the fall.

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