# Fractures at Certainteed Gypsum
> OSHA SIR `2016099248` · 9/27/2016 · PROCTOR, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level, unspecified
- **Source:** Floor, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Certainteed Gypsum
- **Location:** 9622 Energy Road, PROCTOR, WEST VIRGINIA, 26055
- **NAICS:** 327420
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On September 27, 2016, at approximately 4:45 a.m., an employee was helping to clear a dryer jam. While stepping over a steel latch support, he fell (on same level) against another steel latch support and fractured his right femur. He was hospitalized.

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