# Fractures at East Penn Manufacturing Company, Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2025010410` · 1/13/2025 · LYON STATION, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** East Penn Manufacturing Company, Incorporated
- **Location:** 102 Deka Road, LYON STATION, PENNSYLVANIA, 19536
- **NAICS:** 335911
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was about 4 feet up an 8-foot A-frame ladder, working on an overhead pipe. The employee's wrench slipped and they fell from the ladder. The employee suffered spiral fractures to the left tibia and fibula.

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