# Fractures at Dick's Sporting Goods
> OSHA SIR `2018055222` · 5/29/2018 · WAUWATOSA, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Dick's Sporting Goods
- **Location:** 11500 W. Burleigh St., Suite 140, WAUWATOSA, WISCONSIN, 53222
- **NAICS:** 451110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working from a 6-foot step ladder to install a shelf onto a wall used as a clothing display when the employee lost balance and fell to the floor. The shelf the employee was attempting to install landed on and broke the employee's right leg.

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