# Fractures at Sanford Medical Center - Fargo
> OSHA SIR `2019021737` · 2/15/2019 · FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to slipping
- **Source:** Parking lot-paved
- **Secondary source:** Ice, sleet, snow
## Employer
- **Name:** Sanford Medical Center - Fargo
- **Location:** 5225 23rd Avenue South, FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, 58104
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee slipped in an icy parking lot and suffered a closed compression fracture of a vertebra in her back.

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