# Fractures at Belden Brick Company, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2024087933` · 8/27/2024 · SUGARCREEK, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Upper arm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
- **Secondary source:** Hopper interior
## Employer
- **Name:** Belden Brick Company, LLC.
- **Location:** 700 Evedelweiss Dr NE, SUGARCREEK, OHIO, 44681
- **NAICS:** 327331
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on a protruding piece of a pallet while cutting another protruding pallet piece with a reciprocating saw so it would fit into a hopper. The employee fell into the hopper and suffered a broken left humerus.

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