# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at Matthews Industries, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020065783` · 6/22/2020 · DECATUR, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Matthews Industries, Inc.
- **Location:** 23 2nd Street SW, DECATUR, ALABAMA, 35601
- **NAICS:** 333415
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing up a two-foot step ladder to unjam the head of a turret machine. The employee missed one of the steps, fell off the ladder, and landed on the floor. He was hospitalized with a broken collar bone and a subdermal hematoma.

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