# Fractures at Cargo Transporters, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023098646` · 9/19/2023 · EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Cargo Transporters, Inc.
- **Location:** 12 Gateway Commerce center, EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS, 62025
- **NAICS:** 484230
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had just exited a vehicle and was approaching the customer's guard shack to check in. As the employee stepped up from the side to the top of the ramp, they lost balance and fell back onto the paved surface. The employee was hospitalized with a right hip fracture that required surgery.

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