# Fractures at SEMO READY MIX INC.
> OSHA SIR `2019054453` · 5/2/2019 · CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall onto or against object on same level, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Floor, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Agitators, mixers-earth, mineral
## Employer
- **Name:** SEMO READY MIX INC.
- **Location:** 3646 County Road 316, CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI, 63701
- **NAICS:** 327320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had been using a chipping gun to dislodge hardened concrete inside a plant mixer drum. The employee was being relieved by another employee and stood up to exit the drum. He then slipped on concrete debris, lost balance and fell forward striking his right side on a mixing fin in the drum. The employee fractured two ribs.

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