# Fractures at Meyer & Depew Company
> OSHA SIR `2023098759` · 9/22/2023 · KENILWORTH, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Skull
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Street, road, driveway-paved
## Employer
- **Name:** Meyer & Depew Company
- **Location:** 309 Lafayette Avenue, KENILWORTH, NEW JERSEY, 07033
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on the rear step of a vehicle bumper. As the truck switched from reverse to forward, the employee fell 16 inches to the paved street. He sustained a skull fracture as well as abrasions to the right arm and hand.

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