# Fractures at BFG Manufacturing
> OSHA SIR `2025088554` · 8/27/2025 · PUNXSUTAWNEY, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back  thoracic region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** BFG Manufacturing
- **Location:** 701 Martha Street, PUNXSUTAWNEY, PENNSYLVANIA, 15767
- **NAICS:** 332813
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee placed an aluminum step ladder beside a tractor trailer and was removing a piece of scrap aluminum from the trailer that resulted from a motor vehicle accident. While coming down the ladder, the employee fell approximately 6 feet to the concrete. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured T4 vertebra.

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