# Cuts and abrasions or bruises at IPSEN, INC
> OSHA SIR `2023010308` · 1/11/2023 · CHERRY VALLEY, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts and abrasions or bruises
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Nitrogen
## Employer
- **Name:** IPSEN, INC
- **Location:** 984 IPSEN ROAD, CHERRY VALLEY, ILLINOIS, 61016
- **NAICS:** 333994
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working from a ladder to service a heat treating vessel when they lost consciousness due a lack of oxygen and the nitrogen present. The employee fell from the ladder and sustained back contusions and a head laceration that required stitches.

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