# Fractures at Buchanan Lumber Birmingham, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017088245` · 8/28/2017 · ALICEVILLE, ALABAMA
## 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:** Log processing machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Buchanan Lumber Birmingham, Inc.
- **Location:** 600 Baptist Line Road, ALICEVILLE, ALABAMA, 35442
- **NAICS:** 321912
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was doing maintenance and housekeeping on a gang saw. When he stepped onto the gang saw's step, his left foot slipped and he fell to the concrete floor, cracking several left-side ribs. He was hospitalized.

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