# Fractures at HEB Grocery
> OSHA SIR `2024076012` · 7/4/2024 · LEAGUE CITY, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back  lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** HEB Grocery
- **Location:** 2755 E. League City Parkway, LEAGUE CITY, TEXAS, 77573
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was retrieving items from the second level when she fell backward approximately 3 feet and struck the floor, resulting in a compression fracture of her lower vertebrae. The employee was hospitalized.

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