# Fractures at Altman Specialty Plants, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025076688` · 7/10/2025 · GRANVILLE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Extension ladders
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Altman Specialty Plants, LLC
- **Location:** 14240 Greenhouse Avenue, GRANVILLE, ILLINOIS, 61326
- **NAICS:** 115112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on an extension ladder putting up a net on top of a greenhouse. The ladder slipped and the employee was struck by a metal pipe while falling 6-8 feet to the ground, striking their head. The employee hospitalized with a skull fracture/internal bleeding and a spine fracture.

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