# Fractures at FedEx Ground Package System, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018011012` · 1/31/2018 · WILLINGTON, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Skull
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** FedEx Ground Package System, Inc.
- **Location:** 350 Ruby Road, WILLINGTON, CONNECTICUT, 06279
- **NAICS:** 492110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was going down a two-step ladder at the raised dock section when he fell backwards off the ladder and struck his head on the concrete floor, briefly losing consciousness and fracturing his skull.

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