# Fractures at Walmart, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2025021382` · 2/12/2025 · JOLIET, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other upper extremities
- **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:** Walmart, Inc
- **Location:** 2424 W. Jefferson Street, JOLIET, ILLINOIS, 60435
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On February 12, 2025, at approximately 5:19 p.m., an employee was using a ladder to retrieve a tire for a customer when she fell backward to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a broken shoulder blade and broken ribs that required surgery.

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