# Fractures at Charleston Stevedoring Company, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024109326` · 10/6/2024 · MOUNT PLEASANT, SOUTH CAROLINA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other lower extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall, contact incident onboard water vehicle
- **Source:** Cargo ship, freighter, passenger liner
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Charleston Stevedoring Company, LLC
- **Location:** MV Ain Snan Express, MOUNT PLEASANT, SOUTH CAROLINA, 29464
- **NAICS:** 488320
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was descending a vertical ladder on a container ship when he fell 12 feet to the platform below. The employee sustained fractures to ribs on his left side, his right knee, and his right foot, as well as lacerations and scrapes to both knees.

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