# Fractures at FEDEX GROUND
> OSHA SIR `2022010494` · 1/18/2022 · BIRMINGHAM, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** FEDEX GROUND
- **Location:** 4029 North Pleasant Avenue, BIRMINGHAM, MISSOURI, 64161
- **NAICS:** 484110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was retrieving a package from an elevated area using a ladder. The ladder fell and the employee suffered a broken left hip.

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