# Fractures at MECO-Henne Contracting, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015097227` · 9/28/2015 · FREMONT, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Scaffolds-improvised staging
## Employer
- **Name:** MECO-Henne Contracting, Inc.
- **Location:** 3200 Military Ave, FREMONT, NEBRASKA, 68025
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was welding angle edge onto steel beams. The employee placed a scaffold plank across two beams to provide a surface on which to sit while welding. He slipped and fell fracturing a hip.

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