# Fractures and surface, flesh wounds at Manheim Philadelphia Auto Auction
> OSHA SIR `2024076687` · 7/23/2024 · HATFIELD, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Stairs, steps
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Manheim Philadelphia Auto Auction
- **Location:** 2280 Bethlehem Pike, HATFIELD, PENNSYLVANIA, 19440
- **NAICS:** 441120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was adjusting his knee brace while standing at the top of a flight of stairs. He lost his balance and fell down the stairs, striking his head and hand on the concrete floor. The employee sustained abrasions, a swollen eye, a broken finger, and lacerations to the head that required stitches above an eye.

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