# Fractures at Peco Foods, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2022054302` · 5/17/2022 · POCAHONTAS, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Movable ladders, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Peco Foods, Inc
- **Location:** 4114 US 67 South, POCAHONTAS, ARKANSAS, 72455
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a 90-inch high cantilever ladder inspecting a mobile blood trailer at the facility. The employee and the ladder fell to the concrete ground. The employee sustained a fractured L1 vertebra and was hospitalized.

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