# Fractures at Frazer & Jones Company A Division of the Eastern Company
> OSHA SIR `20191010737` · 10/14/2019 · SYRACUSE, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
- **Secondary source:** Furnaces, heaters
## Employer
- **Name:** Frazer & Jones Company A Division of the Eastern Company
- **Location:** 3000 Milton Ave., SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, 13221
- **NAICS:** 331511
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was repairing the pour spout on a furnace. He had stepped over and was straddling the spout when his foot became caught on the edge of the furnace lid. He lost his balance and fell backwards into the furnace slag pit, suffering multiple fractures to his back and ribs. He was hospitalized.

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