# Fractures at Lowes Home Improvement Store
> OSHA SIR `2021097686` · 9/7/2021 · WICHITA, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Pelvis
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
- **Source:** Floor, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Chains, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Lowes Home Improvement Store
- **Location:** 333 South Ridge Rd., WICHITA, KANSAS, 67209
- **NAICS:** 236118
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking between two registers. As she stepped over a chain separating the register areas, her back foot caught the chain and she fell to the ground. She suffered a broken pelvis and was hospitalized.

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