# Soreness, swelling, inflammation at Kroger Marketplace #938
> OSHA SIR `2024076244` · 7/11/2024 · ENGLEWOOD, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, swelling, inflammation
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to slip or trip
- **Source:** Other constructed surface
- **Secondary source:** Utility carts, hand trucks, dollies
## Employer
- **Name:** Kroger Marketplace #938
- **Location:** 885 Union Blvd., ENGLEWOOD, OHIO, 45322
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A supermarket employee tripped over a 2-foot-tall wheeled cart as a customer pulled it through a scanning area. Her head struck a refrigerator cooler at the end of the register, and she suffered injuries to the face and neck and swelling to the spine and vertebrae. She was hospitalized, undergoing surgery.

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