# Fractures at Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital
> OSHA SIR `2024032682` · 3/26/2024 · WILLIAMSVILLE, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip joint(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Refrigerators, freezers, ice makers
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital
- **Location:** 1540 Maple Road, WILLIAMSVILLE, NEW YORK, 14221
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a 4-foot ladder then climbed on top of a refrigerator to change a light bulb. When he tried to step down, he fell backward to the ground and fractured his hip.

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