# Fractures at Nucor Steel Birmingham, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025032012` · 3/2/2025 · BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Nucor Steel Birmingham, Inc.
- **Location:** 2301 F. L. Shuttlesworth Drive, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, 35234
- **NAICS:** 331110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was descending a 30-inch step stool when they lost their footing and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a fracture of their upper right tibia.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*