# Fractures at FRITO-LAY, INC
> OSHA SIR `20181010452` · 10/9/2018 · IRVING, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Handrails, banisters
## Employer
- **Name:** FRITO-LAY, INC
- **Location:** 701 NORTH WILDWOOD, IRVING, TEXAS, 75061
- **NAICS:** 311919
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was going up the starch platform when the top handrail of the platform broke and he fell 8 feet to the ground, breaking his ribs and neck bones.

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