# Fractures at FedEx Ground
> OSHA SIR `2020076244` · 7/4/2020 · HEWITT, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** FedEx Ground
- **Location:** 685 Alliance Pkwy, HEWITT, TEXAS, 76643
- **NAICS:** 492110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee fell approximately 10 feet from the second elevated platform to the first elevated platform of an elevated sort tower and landed on the guard rail resulting in a fracture injury.

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