# Fractures at Lowes Home Centers, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020087850` · 8/19/2020 · WAVELAND, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Lowes Home Centers, LLC
- **Location:** 9020 Hwy 603, WAVELAND, MISSISSIPPI, 39576
- **NAICS:** 444110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had been retrieving a one-gallon pail of paint from a shelf. While descending a three-step step ladder, the employee fell from the second step to the floor and sustained a broken hip.

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