# Fractures at Cooper Farms Processing
> OSHA SIR `2023043462` · 4/18/2023 · SAINT HENRY, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Cooper Farms Processing
- **Location:** 1 Cooper Farm Drive, SAINT HENRY, OHIO, 45883
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on an 8-foot step ladder tightening a bolt on the auto-cropping machine in the evisceration department. The wrench the employee was using came loose, causing him to lose balance and fall 3-5 feet to the concrete floor below. The employee sustained fractures to the right radius and right ilium.

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