# Fractures at Hiab USA
> OSHA SIR `2021086754` · 8/10/2021 · LONGVIEW, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Hiab USA
- **Location:** 1010 West Cotton St., LONGVIEW, TEXAS, 75606
- **NAICS:** 333120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee climbed a ladder to work on the boom of a crane. The employee was striking the boom with a pry bar when he fell off the ladder and struck the ladder on the way down, resulting in a skull fracture, ruptured ear drum, multiple rib fractures, and other scrapes and bruises.

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