# Fractures at Cargill Beef
> OSHA SIR `2024031978` · 3/4/2024 · WYALUSING, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Other constructed surface
- **Secondary source:** Other handtools  n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Cargill Beef
- **Location:** 1252 Route 706, WYALUSING, PENNSYLVANIA, 18853
- **NAICS:** 311611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a handheld meat hook to pull chilled beef halves from a storage rail onto a transfer rail. The hook slipped out of the meat and the employee stumbled a few steps backward, struck a wall, and came to rest on the floor. He suffered vertebral fractures and was hospitalized.

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