# Fractures at Overhead Door Company Beaumont, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017069350` · 6/16/2017 · BEAUMONT, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Ladders, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Overhead Door Company Beaumont, Inc.
- **Location:** 1070 Lindbergh Drive, BEAUMONT, TEXAS, 77707
- **NAICS:** 332321
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a ladder performing overhead door maintenance on a torsion bar/spring when the door became unstable. The employee then fell from the ladder to the concrete ground, fracturing the right femur.

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