# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at Embrace Living Communities
> OSHA SIR `2024021684` · 2/23/2024 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Fixed ladder or fire escape
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Embrace Living Communities
- **Location:** 3833 W Washington Blvd, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60624
- **NAICS:** 531311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was descending a roof access ladder after replacing air handler filters on the roof. He lost footing on the ladder rung and fell backward. He sustained multiple facial lacerations, a facial fracture, a laceration to the back of his head, a nasal fracture, left lower extremity lacerations, and a lacerated spleen.

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