# Fractures at PTR Bailer & Compactor Company
> OSHA SIR `2025043275` · 4/9/2025 · BREINIGSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Vehicle trailers, trailing units
- **Secondary source:** Chains
## Employer
- **Name:** PTR Bailer & Compactor Company
- **Location:** 8301 Industrial Blvd, BREINIGSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, 18031
- **NAICS:** 333993
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had just driven a forklift onto a trailer and was stepping down from the forklift cab onto the trailer bed. He stepped onto a chain/buckle system (used to secure the forklift to the trailer bed during travel) and fell from the deck. He suffered a head laceration and two broken vertebrae and was hospitalized.

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