# Fractures at Seneca Foods Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2024076043` · 7/5/2024 · LEICESTER, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Wrenches, ratchets
## Employer
- **Name:** Seneca Foods Corporation
- **Location:** 5705 Route 36, LEICESTER, NEW YORK, 14481
- **NAICS:** 311421
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loosening a pipe fitting using two pipe wrenches from the second step of a step ladder. When one of the pipe wrenches lost its grip on the fitting, the employee lost their balance and fell backward to the concrete floor, fracturing their left arm.

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