# Fractures at Restaurant Equipment Service Group LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021021169` · 2/9/2021 · PEKIN, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Ice, sleet, snow
## Employer
- **Name:** Restaurant Equipment Service Group LLC
- **Location:** Arby's, PEKIN, ILLINOIS, 61554
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a ladder in order to access the top of a walk-in cooler. The walk-in cooler was outdoors and the conditions were below freezing and icy. The employee slipped and fell approximately 5 feet to the ground, resulting in two fractured bones in the lower half of the right leg.

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