# Fractures at FRICK'S QUALITY MEATS, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2025077317` · 7/26/2025 · WASHINGTON, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  unspecified
- **Source:** Portable stairs
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** FRICK'S QUALITY MEATS, INC.
- **Location:** 360 M. E. Frick Drive, WASHINGTON, MISSOURI, 63090
- **NAICS:** 311612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning the brine tank and went to activate the dumper switch, which was down and around a corner from where he was positioned. The employee reached down and around to flip the switch. The movable stairs he was on then became unsteady and overturned. He fell to the ground and sustained fractures to his wrist, femur, hip, and pelvis. The employee was hospitalized.

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