# Fractures at Tyson Foods, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20171110977` · 11/15/2017 · WALDRON, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Stairs, steps-indoors
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** Tyson Foods, Inc.
- **Location:** 442 Plant St, WALDRON, ARKANSAS, 72958
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was going downstairs when her toe caught the end of a pallet. She then tripped and fell to the floor, fracturing her left hip.

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