# Fractures at Simmons Prepared Foods, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023065218` · 6/13/2023 · VAN BUREN, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 21 to 25 feet
- **Source:** Stairs, steps-outdoors
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Simmons Prepared Foods, Inc.
- **Location:** 2101 Twin Circle Dr, VAN BUREN, ARKANSAS, 72956
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pushing trash over the side of a second-story stairway landing into a receptacle below. He fell off the landing and suffered injuries to his head, hip, and leg, including a broken femur.

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