# Fractures at Penn State University
> OSHA SIR `20201010111` · 10/23/2020 · UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Tractor, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Penn State University
- **Location:** 6 Eisenhower Parking Deck, UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA, 16802
- **NAICS:** 611310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning the rear window of a tractor while standing on the hitch bars and fell. The employee fractured three ribs and sustained a hemothorax on the right side.

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