# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at Carpenter Technology Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2021043436` · 4/26/2021 · READING, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
- **Source:** Furnaces, heaters
- **Secondary source:** Tank, bin, vat interiors, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Carpenter Technology Corporation
- **Location:** 101 West Bern Street, READING, PENNSYLVANIA, 19601
- **NAICS:** 331111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing at the edge of the furnace pit and was going to push out the lining on the furnace. The employee fell approximately 20 feet into the furnace tank and sustained broken vertebrae, two broken ribs, and a brain bleed. The employee was not wearing fall protection at the time of the fall.

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