# Fractures at SALINA REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER
> OSHA SIR `2024087649` · 8/20/2024 · LINDSBORG, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple regions of the head
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Portable ladders and stairs  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** SALINA REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER
- **Location:** 605 West Lincoln, LINDSBORG, KANSAS, 67456
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a ladder pulling wires in the ceiling for IT work and fell from the third or fourth rung to the floor. The employee struck their head and suffered closed head fractures including several facial fractures and a temporal fracture.

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