# Fractures at Umicore Specialty Materials Recycling, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20191011370` · 10/31/2019 · WICKLIFFE, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Umicore Specialty Materials Recycling, LLC
- **Location:** 28960 Lakeland Blvd., WICKLIFFE, OHIO, 44092
- **NAICS:** 331492
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing a portable ladder and fell to the floor below resulting in two fractured vertebrae.

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