# Fractures at Kroger Marketplace
> OSHA SIR `2018022049` · 2/28/2018 · MANSFIELD, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** Kroger Marketplace
- **Location:** 3300 E. Broad St., MANSFIELD, TEXAS, 76063
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in a back room using a nutrition cart that had a three step ladder attached to it. She was obtaining product from a shelf when she fell backwards off the step ladder, landing on concrete and fracturing her left knee.

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