# Fractures at PORT INDUSTRIES
> OSHA SIR `2019066280` · 6/21/2019 · PALMYRA, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall through surface or existing opening, unspecified
- **Source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
- **Secondary source:** Ground, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** PORT INDUSTRIES
- **Location:** 802 Industrial Dr., PALMYRA, MISSOURI, 63461
- **NAICS:** 333111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was checking/inspecting the hose to a trencher that was parked over a pit when he fell into the floor of the pit, suffering broken ribs.

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