# Fractures at Prairie Lakes Health Care System, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024021736` · 2/26/2024 · WATERTOWN, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Stairs, steps
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Prairie Lakes Health Care System, Inc.
- **Location:** 392 South Lake Drive, WATERTOWN, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57201
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking down a stairway in front of a house. Her left knee gave out and she fell down the stairs, suffering a broken kneecap.  She was hospitalized.

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