# Fractures at Sims Municipal Recycling Center
> OSHA SIR `2022109319` · 10/24/2022 · BROOKLYN, 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, unspecified
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Structures and surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Sims Municipal Recycling Center
- **Location:** 472 2nd Ave, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, 11232
- **NAICS:** 562920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on an A-frame ladder inside a bunker, which he had entered to change a conveyor belt roller. While he was looking for a place to attach his retractable lanyard, the ladder slid forward. He fell, landing on the bunker floor and on the self-retracting lanyards attached to his body harness. He suffered broken ribs.

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