# Fractures at Joseph McCormick Construction Co., Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015042265` · 4/22/2015 · NORTH EAST, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Excavating machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Joseph McCormick Construction Co., Inc.
- **Location:** Route 5 and Middle Road, NORTH EAST, PENNSYLVANIA, 16428
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was exiting an excavator.  The employee's foot got caught on the exit ladder on the excavator, causing the employee to fall backwards onto the ground resulting in a broken right hip.

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