# Fractures at Seminole Electric Cooperative, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20211211072` · 12/27/2021 · PALATKA, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Counters, counter tops
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Seminole Electric Cooperative, Inc.
- **Location:** 890 North Highway 17, PALATKA, FLORIDA, 32177
- **NAICS:** 221122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

At 3:00 p.m. on December 27, 2021, an employee was replacing a container on a top shelf. As she stepped off a lab counter to a step stool, she fell to the floor and suffered a broken leg. She was hospitalized.

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