# Fractures at Barnes-Jewish Center for Advanced Medicine
> OSHA SIR `2023010854` · 1/26/2023 · SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s) and leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Chairs
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Barnes-Jewish Center for Advanced Medicine
- **Location:** 5201 Mid America Plaza, SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI, 63110
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on a chair to work on a latch on a door. The employee fell from the chair to the tile floor below. She was hospitalized with fractures to her knee and lower leg, which required surgery.

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