# Fractures at Blue Bell Creameries, L. P.
> OSHA SIR `2024098242` · 9/5/2024 · BROKEN ARROW, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Trucks  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Blue Bell Creameries, L. P.
- **Location:** 8201 E HWY 51, BROKEN ARROW, OKLAHOMA, 74014
- **NAICS:** 311520
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was exiting the bed of his service truck using the lift gate when he slipped due to the tapered edge and fell, striking the support post of the lift gate. The employee sustained three fractured ribs and cracked vertebrae.

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