# Fractures at Smithfield Packaged Meats
> OSHA SIR `2016010317` · 1/13/2016 · VALDOSTA, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Delivery truck or van
## Employer
- **Name:** Smithfield Packaged Meats
- **Location:** 4333 Bemis Road, VALDOSTA, GEORGIA, 31605
- **NAICS:** 424470
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was stepping out of the back of a delivery truck when he fell approximately 3 feet to the ground, fracturing his right hip.

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