# Fractures at Amedisys West Virginia, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019099793` · 9/19/2019 · CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level while climbing stairs, steps, or curbs
- **Source:** Curbs
## Employer
- **Name:** Amedisys West Virginia, LLC
- **Location:** Patients Home, CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, 25311
- **NAICS:** 621610
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee walking towards a patient's home stepped onto a curb, tripped and fell. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left arm, and pain in the left shoulder, elbow and knee.

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