# Fractures at Laurel Valley Farms
> OSHA SIR `2025010958` · 1/29/2025 · LANDENBERG, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Rib(s), oblique area
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **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 removing a radiator from a front loader when they slipped backward off a step ladder and fell to the ground. The employee sustained fractures to four ribs on their left side.

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