# Fractures at SAS Retail Services
> OSHA SIR `2017021018` · 2/1/2017 · WEST MIFFLIN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Floor, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Step ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** SAS Retail Services
- **Location:** 1356 Hoffman Boulevard, WEST MIFFLIN, PENNSYLVANIA, 15122
- **NAICS:** 561990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were pulling apart two entangled step stools when one employee fell backward, fracturing her L2 vertebra.

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