# Fractures at Mercy Health
> OSHA SIR `2025054097` · 5/1/2025 · ROGERS, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Rib(s), oblique area
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Portable ladders and stairs  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Mercy Health
- **Location:** 2710 Rife Medical Lane, ROGERS, ARKANSAS, 72758
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was descending a ladder after installing the sliding rail for a pocket door. His right foot twisted and he fell backward from the last rung and struck his back on the corner of a counter. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to three of the ribs on his left side.

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