# Fractures at FEDEX Ground Package System, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20231211684` · 12/27/2023 · PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Machine platforms
- **Secondary source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** FEDEX Ground Package System, Inc.
- **Location:** 1 Tinicum Island Road, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 19113
- **NAICS:** 492110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee stopped a belt and was going to check it for missing packages. She fell backward 3-4 feet from an elevated platform and sustained a broken right arm.

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