# Fractures at Joseph's Food Products Company Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025077557` · 7/31/2025 · BROADVIEW, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Rib(s), oblique area
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Joseph's Food Products Company Inc.
- **Location:** 2759 S 25th Ave, BROADVIEW, ILLINOIS, 60155
- **NAICS:** 311999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing an A-frame ladder to clear a jam in an overhead conveyance. The employee fell from the ladder to the plant floor and sustained fractured ribs.

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