# Fractures at Crate and Barrel
> OSHA SIR `2024087998` · 8/28/2024 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Crate and Barrel
- **Location:** 4600 Westheimer Road, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77027
- **NAICS:** 452990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a step stool to retrieve an item from an upper shelf. As they were coming down the step stool, they missed a step and fell to the floor, sustaining a bilateral tibia fracture.

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