# Fractures at Benard Gherman
> OSHA SIR `2025066247` · 6/29/2025 · PALMYRA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Shelves, shelving, racks
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Benard Gherman
- **Location:** 66 North Londonderry Square, PALMYRA, PENNSYLVANIA, 17078
- **NAICS:** 424410
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee climbed up a 4-foot step ladder and then stepped onto shelving in the grocery store. They lost balance and fell 3.5 feet, striking a cart and then the floor. The employee sustained a fractured right forearm that required surgery.

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