# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at Expressway Motors, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022119941` · 11/11/2022 · BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Stairs, steps, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Expressway Motors, Inc.
- **Location:** 700 Morrissey Boulevard, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 02122
- **NAICS:** 441110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was setting up to paint. When stepping onto the edge of the scaffolding from the 2nd or 3rd step of a ladder, the ladder shifted, causing the employee to fall about 4 feet. He landed on his side on the top stair and was hospitalized for three fractured ribs and a possible bruised spleen.

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