# Fractures at Staples
> OSHA SIR `2020043702` · 4/22/2020 · FREEHOLD, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Movable ladders, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Staples
- **Location:** Pond Road Shopping Plaza, FREEHOLD, NEW JERSEY, 07728
- **NAICS:** 453210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was taking down or placing chairs in storage while standing on the top platform of a rolling stair ladder when he fainted and fell to the concrete floor. He was hospitalized with a fractured skull, fractured spine, and a broken rib.

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