# Fractures at Altium packaging
> OSHA SIR `2021064883` · 6/15/2021 · DALLAS, TEXAS
## 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:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Step ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** Altium packaging
- **Location:** 4525 Joseph Hardin Dr, DALLAS, TEXAS, 75236
- **NAICS:** 325211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on an 8-foot A-frame ladder, using a resin rod to unjam a blowback chute above. The ladder tipped over and the employee fell, landing on the ladder and suffering four broken left-side ribs.

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