# Fractures at Kmart Corporation
> OSHA SIR `20171211485` · 12/3/2017 · PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Kmart Corporation
- **Location:** 880 Butler Street, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, 15223
- **NAICS:** 453998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was bent over straightening a shelf of merchandise when he stood up and fell, striking his head and neck on the floor. He fractured his second and third vertebrae.

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