# Fractures at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard - Intermediate Maintenance Facility
> OSHA SIR `2021065259` · 6/28/2021 · CORONADO, CALIFORNIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on water vehicle
- **Source:** Water vehicle, n.e.c
## Employer
- **Name:** Puget Sound Naval Shipyard - Intermediate Maintenance Facility
- **Location:** USS Roosevelt (CVN 71) NAS, North Island, Naval Base Coronado, CORONADO, CALIFORNIA, 92135
- **NAICS:** 336611
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was moving wood planks out of a machinery room on an aircraft carrier when they tripped and fell down 8 stairs of an inclined shipboard ladder, resulting in fractured ribs on their left side.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*