# Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified at Publix Supermarkets- Store #4
> OSHA SIR `2015041660` · 4/1/2015 · THE VILLAGES, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Cans
## Employer
- **Name:** Publix Supermarkets- Store #4
- **Location:** 8780 SE 165th Mulberry Lane, THE VILLAGES, FLORIDA, 32162
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee climbed a closed stepladder that was leaning against a wall. He was carrying a trash can to put it up onto a storage mezzanine. As he swung the can up and released it, it struck the building, ricocheted back into him, and knocked him off the ladder to the floor.

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