# Fractures at Pepperidge Farm, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024053896` · 5/3/2024 · DOWNINGTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Pepperidge Farm, Inc.
- **Location:** 421 Boot Road, DOWNINGTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, 19335
- **NAICS:** 311812
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a freezer while on an A-frame ladder when they fell 8-10 feet and sustained a fractured rib and sacrum.

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