# Fractures at Carpenter Technology
> OSHA SIR `2018088301` · 8/14/2018 · READING, PENNSYLVANIA
## 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:** Ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Carpenter Technology
- **Location:** 101 West Burn Street, READING, PENNSYLVANIA, 19601
- **NAICS:** 331110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting wires, working from a ladder. A piece of skull from a furnace fell and struck the ladder. The employee fell from the ladder onto a scrap bin, suffering broken ribs.

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