# Cuts, lacerations at New York-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
> OSHA SIR `2022119619` · 11/2/2022 · NEW YORK, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Stairs, steps-indoors
- **Secondary source:** Stairs, steps-indoors
## Employer
- **Name:** New York-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- **Location:** 630 West 168th Street, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 10032
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a broom to sweep the stairs in a stairwell. She fell from the second-to-last step onto the landing about 14 inches below, suffering a head laceration, an injury to her right thumb that required stitches, and a left knee injury.

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