# Fractures at Kirkland's Stores, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024010935` · 1/30/2024 · LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back  thoracic region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Trucks  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Kirkland's Stores, Inc.
- **Location:** 1250 Scenic Highway South, LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, 30045
- **NAICS:** 453998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was about to climb down from the bed of a truck. As she stepped down to a step ladder, she missed its top platform and fell to the concrete pavement about 48 inches below. She suffered a compression fracture to her T-12 vertebra.

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