# Fractures at JM Smucker Co
> OSHA SIR `2017076253` · 7/7/2017 · BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Step ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** JM Smucker Co
- **Location:** 6670 Low St, BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, 17815
- **NAICS:** 311111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working from a 6-foot step ladder to change an airline near a sterilizer. He was reaching when he lost his balance and fell, striking a pipe on the ground and fracturing his tibia and fibula. He was hospitalized and had surgery.

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