# Fractures at Empire Distributors
> OSHA SIR `2017010048` · 1/4/2017 · ATLANTA, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Wrist(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Empire Distributors
- **Location:** 3755 Atlanta Industrial Parkway, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, 30331
- **NAICS:** 424820
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was replenishing the warehouse storage racks when he fell 8 feet off of a platform to the ground below, fracturing his wrists.

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