# Fractures at KBK Industries, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2018054961` · 5/21/2018 · RUSH CENTER, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** KBK Industries, LLC.
- **Location:** 1914 US-183, RUSH CENTER, KANSAS, 67575
- **NAICS:** 332420
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to climb up a 6-foot scaffold to paint an 8-foot fiber glass tank. He was using a step stool to step up to the scaffold ladder when it slipped out from underneath him. As he tried to catch himself from falling down, he broke his left ankle and fell about 18 inches to the concrete floor below. He was hospitalized and had surgery.

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