# Fractures at Publix Supermarkets #1355
> OSHA SIR `2016043627` · 4/30/2016 · AUBURN, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Bending, crawling, reaching, twisting-single episode
- **Source:** Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
- **Secondary source:** Tables, worktables
## Employer
- **Name:** Publix Supermarkets #1355
- **Location:** 2900 East University, AUBURN, ALABAMA, 36830
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was decorating a cake. She turned and thought she was falling. She braced herself on a table with wheels. This caused her to twist and something popped in her left hip. She was hospitalized with a fractured left femur.

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