# Fractures at Day & Zimmermann NPS, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20211210771` · 12/15/2021 · ATHENS, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-self-supporting staging
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Day & Zimmermann NPS, Inc.
- **Location:** 10833 Shaw Road, ATHENS, ALABAMA, 35611
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was dismantling a frame scaffold. The employee stepped up onto the bottom rung of the frame to hand another employee a piece of diamond plate. As the employee stepped back down from the rung, his foot slipped and he fell 2 feet to the concrete floor. He was hospitalized with a fractured left hip.

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