# Fractures at S. A. Comunale Co., Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20171211976` · 12/17/2017 · BARBERTON, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Trailers
## Employer
- **Name:** S. A. Comunale Co., Inc.
- **Location:** 2900 Newpark Dr., BARBERTON, OHIO, 44203
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

After tying down pallets on a flatbed trailer, an employee was about to step down onto the bumper to get off the trailer when he missed the bumper and fell to the ground. He fractured his left hip.

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