# Fractures at Falvey's Motors Inc
> OSHA SIR `20221210608` · 12/6/2022 · NORWICH, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Parking lot, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Highway vehicle, motorized, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Falvey's Motors Inc
- **Location:** 395 West Thames Street, NORWICH, CONNECTICUT, 06360
- **NAICS:** 441110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in the parking lot, checking a VIN number on a damaged vehicle that was being towed into the shop. As she stepped away from the vehicle she got caught on the wire ring from a hubcap on the damaged vehicle, and fell backward, fracturing her left hip and spraining her left wrist.

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