# Fractures at Quality Sausage Company
> OSHA SIR `2015086097` · 8/25/2015 · DALLAS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Barrels, drums-except pressurized
## Employer
- **Name:** Quality Sausage Company
- **Location:** 1925 Lone Star Drive, DALLAS, TEXAS, 75212
- **NAICS:** 311612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee climbed on top of a 55 gallon barrel to retrieve some equipment from a rack, lost his balance, and fell four feet into an empty stainless steel vat below causing him to fracture five ribs.

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