# Fractures at Panhandle Harvesting Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20181112233` · 11/29/2018 · CLAUDE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Entangled in other object or equipment
- **Source:** Ladders, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Panhandle Harvesting Services, LLC
- **Location:** Cotton field 2 miles South of intersection, CLAUDE, TEXAS, 79019
- **NAICS:** 115113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was going up a ladder near the top of a module builder when he stepped off the ladder and went to open the door of the module builder cab.  He reached to open the cab door and lost his balance, falling to his right. He grabbed at the ladder but missed, and his right leg went through the ladder and snapped, breaking both bones in his lower leg. He was hospitalized.

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