# Fractures at H-E-B Grocery Company, LP
> OSHA SIR `2018010440` · 1/14/2018 · LAREDO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Limbs, branches-unattached
## Employer
- **Name:** H-E-B Grocery Company, LP
- **Location:** 1301 Guadalupe St., LAREDO, TEXAS, 78040
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a ladder cutting a tree branch with an electric saw when the branch swung and struck the ladder, causing him to fall to the ground and strike his head on the concrete curb. He suffered a head injury, sprained right shoulder, and broken neck vertebrae.

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