# Fractures at Rubio Vegetation Management, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022032725` · 3/27/2022 · THEODORE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Structures and surfaces, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Rubio Vegetation Management, Inc.
- **Location:** 5115 Dawes Lane, THEODORE, ALABAMA, 36582
- **NAICS:** 332311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was erecting a pre-fabricated structure on the owner's property and was walking across the steel beam side support structure to secure metal trusses with an electric drill with a socket head when he slipped and fell 14 feet to the concrete slab below. The employee sustained a broken hip.

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