# Fractures at Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company
> OSHA SIR `2017031985` · 3/2/2017 · PARAGOULD, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Step ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company
- **Location:** 2921 Hwy 49 N, PARAGOULD, ARKANSAS, 72450
- **NAICS:** 336212
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing down a 6-foot step ladder after cleaning the interior wall of a trailer when the employee's left knee gave out and he fell fracturing his right femur.

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