# Fractures at Tropicana Atlantic City
> OSHA SIR `2025088274` · 8/19/2025 · ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Rib(s), oblique area
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Tables, desks, work surfaces
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Tropicana Atlantic City
- **Location:** 2831 Boardwalk, ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY, 08401
- **NAICS:** 721120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee used a step ladder to get onto a metal countertop section in a kitchen to clean an area near the ceiling. When he stepped back down from the countertop and onto the step stool, he fell to the floor, striking the counter and ladder during the fall. The employee suffered fractured ribs and contusions on his left elbow and head.

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