# Fractures at Target
> OSHA SIR `2024087103` · 8/5/2024 · PLAINVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Target
- **Location:** 91 Taunton Street, PLAINVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS, 02762
- **NAICS:** 452112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on an A-frame ladder and pulling items from a shelving unit when she fell to the concrete floor and landed on her back. The employee was hospitalized with fractured vertebrae.

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