# Fractures at FleetPride
> OSHA SIR `2024065683` · 6/25/2024 · AGAWAM, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Elbow(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** FleetPride
- **Location:** 32 Century Street, AGAWAM, MASSACHUSETTS, 01001
- **NAICS:** 532120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on a 6-foot step ladder and removing a bearing plate from the tarping system on a dump truck. The plate offered little to no resistance causing the employee to lose his balance and fall from the third step of the ladder. The employee impacted the ground and fractured his left elbow.

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