# Fractures at Publix
> OSHA SIR `2018032233` · 3/6/2018 · PARRISH, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** Publix
- **Location:** 11245 US 301, PARRISH, FLORIDA, 34219
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was descending a two-step stool when she missed the bottom step and fell to the ground, striking and fracturing her knee on the floor. She was hospitalized.

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