# Fractures at American Cast Iron Pipe Company
> OSHA SIR `2025088701` · 8/31/2025 · BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Rib(s), oblique area
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Switchboards, panels, fuses
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** American Cast Iron Pipe Company
- **Location:** 1501 31st Ave N, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, 35207
- **NAICS:** 331511
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing maintenance/electrical work inside a substation, and used a ladder to access the top of a panel box. The employee fell 8-9 feet from the top of the panel box to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to their ribs and a shoulder injury.

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