# Fractures at Swift Beef Company
> OSHA SIR `2020054380` · 5/11/2020 · CACTUS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Ladders-fixed
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Swift Beef Company
- **Location:** 5950 Trails End Road, CACTUS, TEXAS, 79013
- **NAICS:** 311611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing a fixed ladder while carrying plastic to place the plastic over a hole on the roof that was leaking due to a storm. He slipped and fell approximately 12 feet off the ladder to a lower level, fracturing his right wrist and right hip.

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