# Fractures at Melhorn Sales, Service, & Trucking Co.
> OSHA SIR `2016010060` · 1/5/2016 · GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall through surface or existing opening 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Existing floor opening
## Employer
- **Name:** Melhorn Sales, Service, & Trucking Co.
- **Location:** Hillandale Farm Site 2, GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, 17325
- **NAICS:** 484220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading chickens from a chicken farm onto transportation trucks. The employee was pulling a full cart of chickens down the aisle inside the chicken house. As the cart rolled over a section of the steel grating floor, the section became dislodged and fell. The employee and cart fell approximately 10 feet through the hole to the ground.  The employee suffered a broken left hand and required surgery.

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