# Fractures at Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20181111562` · 11/9/2018 · WACO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
- **Location:** 1200 Richland Drive, WACO, TEXAS, 76710
- **NAICS:** 451120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing a ladder holding a bushel basket. The basket hit a shelf, which fell; the employee flipped backwards off the ladder and landed on his back on the floor. He suffered a broken vertebra in his lower back, with fragments sticking into the spinal canal.

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