# Fractures at United States Steel Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2022076451` · 7/22/2022 · BRADDOCK, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall through surface or existing opening 16 to 20 feet
- **Source:** Existing floor opening
- **Secondary source:** Machine platforms
## Employer
- **Name:** United States Steel Corporation
- **Location:** Mon Valley Works - Edgar Thomson Plant, BRADDOCK, PENNSYLVANIA, 15104
- **NAICS:** 331111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working with a mixer. The employee fell through a floor hole to a platform 20 feet below the mixer, suffering a fractured pelvis and fractured vertebrae. The employee was hospitalized.

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