# Fractures at KAG Merchant Gas Group, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021065340` · 6/30/2021 · FLUSHING, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Trailers
- **Secondary source:** Step ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** KAG Merchant Gas Group, LLC
- **Location:** 56-45 Main Street, FLUSHING, NEW YORK, 11355
- **NAICS:** 484110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was checking the lowboy trailer and preparing to make a delivery. The employee slipped while climbing down the wet steps of the trailer and fell 3-4 feet. The employee landed on a small step stool at the bottom of the ladder and sustained two rib fractures, a lumbar compression fracture, and a left elbow contusion.

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