# Fractures at Park Meadows Health & Rehabilitation Center
> OSHA SIR `2016087217` · 8/4/2016 · GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other jump to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Limbs, branches-unattached
## Employer
- **Name:** Park Meadows Health & Rehabilitation Center
- **Location:** 3250 SW 41st Place, GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA, 32608
- **NAICS:** 623110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting tree limbs from a 6 foot A-frame ladder when a limb hit the ladder. He dismounted the ladder 2 feet off the ground, breaking his right leg and requiring hospitalization.

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