# Fractures at Rolls-Royce Defense
> OSHA SIR `2024043271` · 4/15/2024 · KINGSVILLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Running, without other incident
- **Source:** Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Rolls-Royce Defense
- **Location:** 1252 Mitscher Av. Bldg. 3743, KINGSVILLE, TEXAS, 78363
- **NAICS:** 333618
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pushing a cart outside a building to get an oil container when a piece of foam blew off the cart. He was chasing after the foam when he heard a loud pop in his right leg and fell to the grass. The employee suffered a fracture to his right inferior femur.

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