# Fractures at Whelen Engineering
> OSHA SIR `20191212412` · 12/3/2019 · CHARLESTOWN, NEW HAMPSHIRE
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
- **Source:** Bands
## Employer
- **Name:** Whelen Engineering
- **Location:** 99 ceda rd, CHARLESTOWN, NEW HAMPSHIRE, 03603
- **NAICS:** 335999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was retrieving empty boxes from a pallet. The employee unknowingly stepped into a loose section of banding on a bundle of boxes on the bottom of the pallet. When she went to walk away, she tripped and fell to the ground, breaking her hip.

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