# Fractures at Northrop Grumman Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2017087375` · 8/3/2017 · LAKE CHARLES, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
- **Secondary source:** Vehicle and mobile equipment parts, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Northrop Grumman Corporation
- **Location:** Northrop Grumman, LAKE CHARLES, LOUISIANA, 70615
- **NAICS:** 488190
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was raising an aircraft maintenance stand with a pump handle when the pump handle broke off and the employee fell approximately 5 feet from the stand to the ground, suffering a broken hip.

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