# Fractures at Albert Gallatin Home Care & Hospice
> OSHA SIR `2023010993` · 1/31/2023 · NEW SALEM, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to slipping
- **Source:** Stairs, steps-outdoors
- **Secondary source:** Ice, sleet, snow
## Employer
- **Name:** Albert Gallatin Home Care & Hospice
- **Location:** Patient's Home, NEW SALEM, PENNSYLVANIA, 15468
- **NAICS:** 621610
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking up the steps to the front porch of a client when they slipped on the icy porch steps and sustained a patella fracture.

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