# Fractures at Southern States - Summersville Coop
> OSHA SIR `2023109667` · 10/19/2023 · SUMMERSVILLE, WEST VIRGINIA
## 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:** Trailers
- **Secondary source:** Bundles, bales
## Employer
- **Name:** Southern States - Summersville Coop
- **Location:** 44 Service Road, SUMMERSVILLE, WEST VIRGINIA, 26651
- **NAICS:** 444220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading straw bales from a trailer. As he pulled a bale down, the stack fell, knocking the employee approximately 4 feet from the trailer to the gravel ground below. The employee sustained fractures to the wrist, hip, and pelvis that required hospitalization.

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