# Fractures at REPUBLIC STEEL
> OSHA SIR `2017087892` · 8/16/2017 · CANTON, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall, slip, trip, unspecified
- **Source:** Grinders, abraders
## Employer
- **Name:** REPUBLIC STEEL
- **Location:** 2633 8TH STREET NE, CANTON, OHIO, 44704
- **NAICS:** 331111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was about to step up onto a manipulator car in order to change a light when he slipped and fell onto the car and sustained multiple fractures to his left rib cage.

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