# Fractures at Optum Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019088614` · 8/20/2019 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Stairs, steps-indoors
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Optum Services, Inc.
- **Location:** 5223 Brookmeade Dr, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77045
- **NAICS:** 621610
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was providing home health services to a patient when she missed a step and fell to a lower level. She sprained her right ankle and fractured her left patella.

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