# Fractures at UPS
> OSHA SIR `2024032185` · 3/11/2024 · BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip joint(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Straight trucks, box trucks
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** UPS
- **Location:** 150 East Brooke Lane, BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA, 16003
- **NAICS:** 492110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in the back of a delivery truck sorting packages. They fell two feet off the back of the truck to the concrete pavement and sustained a fractured hip.

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