# Fractures at The Kroger Company
> OSHA SIR `2025088709` · 8/31/2025 · ATHENS, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Other constructed surface
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** The Kroger Company
- **Location:** 1720 Epps Bridge Pkw, ATHENS, GEORGIA, 30606
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on a raised platform at the seafood counter while setting the service case with product. She misstepped and fell from the platform to the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left leg and required surgery.

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