# Fractures at Gabriel Steel Erectors, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022109197` · 10/20/2022 · NEW YORK, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
- **Secondary source:** Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
## Employer
- **Name:** Gabriel Steel Erectors, Inc.
- **Location:** 787 11th Ave, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 10019
- **NAICS:** 238120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had finished unloading materials from a truck onto a five-foot-high loading dock. The truck started to pull away. The employee stepped backward and fell off the loading dock onto the floor. He landed on his left side and was hospitalized with six fractured ribs.

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