# Fractures at Centers for the Developmentally Disabled
> OSHA SIR `2015097234` · 9/29/2015 · DECATUR, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
- **Source:** Floor, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Step ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** Centers for the Developmentally Disabled
- **Location:** 1602 Church Street Southeast, DECATUR, ALABAMA, 35601
- **NAICS:** 624310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was retrieving supplies and/or documents from a storage room and tripped over a step stool. She fractured her right femur.

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