# Fractures at Merritt Hospitality, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021054194` · 5/23/2021 · BRASELTON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Merritt Hospitality, LLC
- **Location:** 100 Rue Charlemagne Drive, BRASELTON, GEORGIA, 30517
- **NAICS:** 721110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a 10-foot ladder, doing maintenance on a vent hood outside a hotel restaurant kitchen. As he was climbing to the top of the ladder, the ladder slipped. He fell to the ground and suffered a broken right thumb.

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