# Fractures at Red River Brick - Brick Plant
> OSHA SIR `2024010129` · 1/6/2024 · MINERAL WELLS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip joint(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Wheeled containers, material moving equipment  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Red River Brick - Brick Plant
- **Location:** 500 Northeast 14th Avenue, MINERAL WELLS, TEXAS, 76067
- **NAICS:** 327120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a setting machine that places unfired clay bricks onto a kiln car. The employee was manually correcting the stacking of some bricks on the kiln car deck when he lost footing, fell off the kiln car, and landed on the floor 41 inches below. He suffered a broken right hip.

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