# Fractures at University Hospital Geauga Medical Center
> OSHA SIR `20171212059` · 12/19/2017 · CHARDON, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
- **Source:** Floor, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Floor coverings- nonstructural
## Employer
- **Name:** University Hospital Geauga Medical Center
- **Location:** 13207 Ravenna Rd., CHARDON, OHIO, 44024
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping a coworker wheelchair in a non-responsive patient from the emergency room parking lot when he tripped over a carpeted runner and fell on his right side, fracturing his arm. He was hospitalized.

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