# Fractures at Imperial Aluminum - Minerva, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018088810` · 8/26/2018 · MINERVA, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other jump to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Imperial Aluminum - Minerva, LLC
- **Location:** 217 Roosevelt Street, MINERVA, OHIO, 44657
- **NAICS:** 331314
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While taping an aluminum reverb, an employee believed that molten metal was over-flowing the trough and melting oxygen lines on the floor. The employee then jumped over the handrail of an elevated work platform and fell approximately 5 to 6 feet to the floor below, injuring his left elbow and fracturing the left side of his hip.

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