# Fractures at SSC Services for Education
> OSHA SIR `2024043058` · 4/8/2024 · COMMERCE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Slip, trip, stumble while stepping between levels
- **Source:** Curbs
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** SSC Services for Education
- **Location:** 2600 South Neal Street, COMMERCE, TEXAS, 75428
- **NAICS:** 611710
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking to a work vehicle. The employee's knee gave out as they stepped off a curb, and they fell to the ground and suffered a broken femur.

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