# Fractures at Brookdale
> OSHA SIR `2017109946` · 10/16/2017 · LARGO, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
- **Source:** Floor, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Chairs
## Employer
- **Name:** Brookdale
- **Location:** 1030 West Bay Dr, LARGO, FLORIDA, 33770
- **NAICS:** 621610
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was taking a patient's vital signs when she bent forward and her foot was caught on a chair. She then fell to the floor, landing on her left elbow and left knee and fracturing her left shoulder. She was hospitalized.

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