# Fractures at Pacific Ethanol
> OSHA SIR `2024076647` · 7/22/2024 · PEKIN, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Rib(s), oblique area
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Elevators
- **Secondary source:** Existing opening, hole in constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Pacific Ethanol
- **Location:** 1300 South Second Street, PEKIN, ILLINOIS, 61554
- **NAICS:** 325998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On July 22, 2024, an employee was at the belt man lift, showing a trainee an area that needed to be cleaned. The employee was mounting the lift to exit the area when they fell through a hole near the opening and landed partially on the access platform for the lift on the ground floor. The employee sustained a rib fracture.

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