# Fractures at MACY'S
> OSHA SIR `2019066416` · 6/25/2019 · ATLANTA, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Escalators
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** MACY'S
- **Location:** 1300 CUMBERLAND MALL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, 30339
- **NAICS:** 452111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was going up an escalator from the second floor to the third floor when she lost her balance and fell backwards to the second floor level. She was hospitalized with a fractured spine and arm scrapes.

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