# Fractures at Johnson's Gin Co
> OSHA SIR `2015010652` · 1/21/2015 · SILVERTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Ladders, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Johnson's Gin Co
- **Location:** 810 Carter Street, SILVERTON, TEXAS, 79257
- **NAICS:** 115111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On or about 1/21/2015 at 9:00am, a worker on a stick machine located on the gin at Johnson's Gin Co. in Silverstone, Texas, fell from a 5ft ladder and landed on top of the stick machine catching his hand on the equipment and breaking both bones in his forearm resulting in hospitalization.

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