# Fractures at Aurora Cooperative Elevator Co
> OSHA SIR `2025043314` · 4/9/2025 · FRANKLIN, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Portable ladders and stairs  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Aurora Cooperative Elevator Co
- **Location:** 744 E Road, FRANKLIN, NEBRASKA, 68939
- **NAICS:** 424510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was descending a portable ladder after filling a customer's fuel barrel, lost balance, and fell to the gravel ground. The employee sustained a compound fracture of the left ankle that required hospitalization and surgery.

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