# Fractures at Kennametal, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022053973` · 5/7/2022 · HUNTSVILLE, 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-staging, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Kennametal, Inc.
- **Location:** 7300 HWY 20 West, HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA, 35806
- **NAICS:** 333514
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a work platform and accessed the top rail of a 48-inch handrail to manipulate an inlet shutoff valve approximately 8 feet above the work platform. The employee fell approximately 4 feet onto the floor of the platform and fractured his right hip.

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