# Fractures at The Home Depot, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018010328` · 1/10/2018 · VAN BUREN, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
- **Source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Plastic wrap
## Employer
- **Name:** The Home Depot, Inc.
- **Location:** 1989 Township Road 142, VAN BUREN, OHIO, 45889
- **NAICS:** 452910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On January 10, 2018, at approximately 10:30 p.m., an employee was cutting stretch wrap on a pallet when he tripped and fell to the same level, fracturing his femur. He was hospitalized.

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