# Fractures at Simplex Industries, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015085968` · 8/20/2015 · SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Ladders, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Simplex Industries, Inc.
- **Location:** 1 Simplex Drive, SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 18504
- **NAICS:** 321992
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on the fourth rung of a ladder that was leaned up against a modular home.  A tractor moved the modular home while the ladder was still leaned against it. The employee fell from the ladder, breaking a foot and hurting his/her back. The employee was hospitalized.

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