# Fractures at Shady Maple Smorgasbord
> OSHA SIR `2025076437` · 7/3/2025 · EAST EARL, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back  thoracic region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to slip or trip
- **Source:** Other constructed surface
- **Secondary source:** Existing opening, hole in constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Shady Maple Smorgasbord
- **Location:** 129 Toddy Dr., EAST EARL, PENNSYLVANIA, 17519
- **NAICS:** 722212
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was washing pots at the dish sink. They stepped back from the sink, tripped on a raised floor drain grate, and fell backward to the floor. The employee sustained a laceration to the ear that required surgery and a back injury with T9 - T10 spinal fractures.

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