# Fractures at Brooklyn North Recycling
> OSHA SIR `2021010487` · 1/18/2021 · TOLEDO, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Ladders-fixed
- **Secondary source:** Ground, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Brooklyn North Recycling
- **Location:** 4242 Creekside Avenue, TOLEDO, OHIO, 43612
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing up the side of a railcar using the fixed ladder when he fell approximately 13 feet to the ground, resulting in a broken vertebrae in his back.

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