# Fractures at JE Dunn Construction Company
> OSHA SIR `20171211938` · 12/16/2017 · WESTMINSTER, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Step ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** JE Dunn Construction Company
- **Location:** 10368 Westmoor Dr, WESTMINSTER, COLORADO, 80021
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a wire wheel on an electric hand grinder to remove dried concrete slurry from a vertical steel column while on a 12-foot step ladder. The employee was reaching around the column and fell to the floor resulting in a right femur fracture.

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