# Fractures at Van Pelt Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2021021831` · 2/3/2021 · EAST MOLINE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
- **Secondary source:** Hooks, shackles, magnets, clamshells
## Employer
- **Name:** Van Pelt Corporation
- **Location:** 2930 Morton Drive, EAST MOLINE, ILLINOIS, 61244
- **NAICS:** 423510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On February 3, 2021, an employee was walking on the deck of a flatbed trailer to put straps on steel tubing. He tripped over a fixed piece of the trailer and fell off to the driveway below, breaking his left ankle. He was hospitalized.

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