# Fractures and surface, flesh wounds at Royal-J-Acres, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025054317` · 5/8/2025 · OGDENSBURG, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Slopes, embankments
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Royal-J-Acres, LLC
- **Location:** 47 McGowan Road, OGDENSBURG, NEW YORK, 13669
- **NAICS:** 112120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing tires and plastic covering from a silage pile, about 13 feet high. The employee fell down the vertical face of the pile and suffered a severe laceration to the right side of his head, as well as compression fractures in his back and a fractured rib. He was hospitalized.

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