# Fractures at Elara Caring
> OSHA SIR `2025021963` · 2/28/2025 · PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other upper extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Stairs, steps
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Elara Caring
- **Location:** 182 Dalton Division Road, PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, 01201
- **NAICS:** 621610
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking down the basement stairs at a client's home when she mis-stepped/lost her footing and fell down the length of the stairs, approximately 12 steps. The employee sustained fractures to her left scapula and three ribs.

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