# Fractures at Jerry Foster Drywall, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015129393` · 12/11/2015 · FERNANDINA BEACH, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
- **Source:** Floor, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Jerry Foster Drywall, Inc.
- **Location:** 20 South 5th St., FERNANDINA BEACH, FLORIDA, 32034
- **NAICS:** 238310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking on strap-on stilts spreading joint compound on newly installed bathroom drywall when he tripped on an exposed pipe on the floor and fell. He was hospitalized with a broken right femur.

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