# Fractures at R.S. Hughes Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019032952` · 3/21/2019 · PELHAM, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** R.S. Hughes Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 289 Cahaba Valley Parkway Suite E, PELHAM, ALABAMA, 35124
- **NAICS:** 423840
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning up the warehouse and disposing of old inventory. While trying to compact the trash in a dumpster by standing on it, the employee fell out of the dumpster onto the ground and fractured the right arm.

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