# Multiple surface and flesh wounds at Schwans Company
> OSHA SIR `2024043391` · 4/18/2024 · FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple surface and flesh wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level resulting in exposure or contact  unspecified
- **Source:** Fixed ladder or fire escape
- **Secondary source:** Conveyors  n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Schwans Company
- **Location:** 1307 39th Street North, FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, 58102
- **NAICS:** 311412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing a fixed ladder in the freezer and fell onto moving parts of the freezer carousel. The employee sustained chest contusions and lacerations to the face, back, and arm.

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