# Fractures at Laurel Valley Farms
> OSHA SIR `20241211836` · 12/23/2024 · LANDENBERG, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Laurel Valley Farms
- **Location:** 705 Penn Green Road, LANDENBERG, PENNSYLVANIA, 19350
- **NAICS:** 325314
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was transferring compost from one bunker to another when the equipment threw a circuit breaker. While resetting the breaker, the equipment turned on and the employee fell from the machine to the ground and sustained fractures to his ribs and pelvis.

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