# Fractures at Fortrex
> OSHA SIR `2025021522` · 2/15/2025 · HEREFORD, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Catwalks
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Fortrex
- **Location:** 3255 U.S. Highway 60, HEREFORD, TEXAS, 79045
- **NAICS:** 561720
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing a ladder to a catwalk to perform degreasing. The employee fell 8 feet from the ladder platform to the production floor. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to their C2 vertebra, both wrists, and possibly the left leg.

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