# Fractures at Target Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2025077322` · 7/26/2025 · QUAKERTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back  lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  unspecified
- **Source:** Portable ladders and stairs  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Target Corporation
- **Location:** 601 N West End Blvd., QUAKERTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, 18951
- **NAICS:** 453998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a 6-foot ladder working to adjust a camera system around the ceiling tile. The ladder buckled and the employee fell to the floor, sustaining a laceration to his head and a compression fracture to his lower back. The employee was hospitalized and required staples for the laceration.

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