# Fractures at WalMart
> OSHA SIR `2017010879` · 1/29/2017 · FREDERICKSBURG, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** WalMart
- **Location:** Walmart Store 1154, FREDERICKSBURG, TEXAS, 78624
- **NAICS:** 452990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on the second step of a six-foot ladder in the backroom sorting through hardware bins. The employee began to come down the ladder and missed the last rung. The employee fell and broke the left hip.

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