# Fractures at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015031005` · 3/5/2015 · CLEVELAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple leg locations, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Ladders, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
- **Location:** 831 Highway 59 South, CLEVELAND, TEXAS, 77327
- **NAICS:** 452112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The injured employee was auditing inventory/scanning freight using a ladder. The employee was holding on to the ladder with the right hand and held a telxon in the left hand. While descending the ladder, the employee missed the third step and fell approximately 4 feet to the ground. The employee landed on the left leg, breaking it in several places.

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