# Fractures at Nassau Candy Distributors, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019065712` · 6/6/2019 · HICKSVILLE, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Nassau Candy Distributors, Inc.
- **Location:** 500 West John St., HICKSVILLE, NEW YORK, 11801
- **NAICS:** 424450
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on the top cap of a 3-foot step ladder cleaning a vent. As she was stepping down from the top cap, she lost her footing and fell off the ladder landing on her right leg and fracturing the tibia.

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