# Fractures at Advocate Health Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024053951` · 5/6/2024 · ELKHORN, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Slip, trip, stumble while stepping between levels
- **Source:** Curbs
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Advocate Health Inc.
- **Location:** Aurora Medical Center Lakeland, ELKHORN, WISCONSIN, 53121
- **NAICS:** 621399
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was leaving work and stepping off a curb when their shoe caught on the curb and they fell to the gravel ground, resulting in a fractured knee and a torn ligament.

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