# Fractures at Marschel Wrecking, L.L.C.
> OSHA SIR `20161211797` · 12/20/2016 · SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Marschel Wrecking, L.L.C.
- **Location:** 8020 Virginia Ave., SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI, 63114
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unbolting a storage tank when he stepped on a 3-foot segment of a grated platform that was not secured. He then fell 15 feet to the concrete floor below, breaking his left hip and requiring overnight hospitalization.

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