# Fractures at United Parcel Service, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017077045` · 7/27/2017 · NAPLES, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall onto or against object on same level, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Ladders-fixed
## Employer
- **Name:** United Parcel Service, Inc.
- **Location:** 971 Commercial Boulevard, NAPLES, FLORIDA, 34104
- **NAICS:** 492110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was stepping onto the top rung of a steel 3-rung fixed ladder when he slipped and hit his shin resulting in a fractured tibia.

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