# Fractures at Texas Sterling Construction, LP
> OSHA SIR `2015042301` · 4/23/2015 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Culverts, nonconfined ditches
## Employer
- **Name:** Texas Sterling Construction, LP
- **Location:** 8800 Lanewell, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77029
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in a 14-foot excavation installing a concrete box culvert. As he was climbing out of the culvert, he fell approximately 3 feet and broke his right femur. He was hospitalized.

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