# Fractures at Farm & Fleet of Rice Lake, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20161211321` · 12/4/2016 · ONALASKA, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Racks-garment and other
## Employer
- **Name:** Farm & Fleet of Rice Lake, Inc.
- **Location:** 9438 State Road 16, ONALASKA, WISCONSIN, 54650
- **NAICS:** 452910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee on a ladder was reaching to remove some clothes from the back of a rack while holding on to a horizontal pipe (used to hang clothes) near the front of the rack. The horizontal pipe disengaged from the rack uprights and fell, causing the employee to lose her balance and fall to the ground. She fractured her left ankle.

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