# Fractures at International Paper Company
> OSHA SIR `2019032762` · 3/15/2019 · PORT WENTWORTH, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thoracic region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
## Employer
- **Name:** International Paper Company
- **Location:** 1 Bonnybridge Road, PORT WENTWORTH, GEORGIA, 31407
- **NAICS:** 322121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on a ladder trying to unclog a bark hopper using a high-pressure water hose when he fell from the third step (about 3 feet), then rolled over the ledge (about 3 feet) and onto a bark pile on a truck ramp. He was hospitalized with a fractured T-12 vertebra.

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