# Fractures at Wellington Healthcare, INC
> OSHA SIR `2021108602` · 10/5/2021 · TEMPLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Limbs, branches-unattached
## Employer
- **Name:** Wellington Healthcare, INC
- **Location:** 1802 So. 31st Street, TEMPLE, TEXAS, 76504
- **NAICS:** 623110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting down a tree branch while on a ladder. The branch fell and struck the ladder, knocking the employee off of it. The employee struck the bumper of a parked vehicle and the ground after falling, resulting in a laceration to the chin and face, as well as four fractured ribs.

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