# Fractures at Texas Materials
> OSHA SIR `2024043478` · 4/22/2024 · PLANO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Other constructed surface
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Texas Materials
- **Location:** 5982 W. Parker Road, PLANO, TEXAS, 75093
- **NAICS:** 423390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was picking up cones from a street. He saw a broken water valve in his path and stopped walking suddenly; his knees buckled and he fell forward to the ground, suffering a broken right femur. He was hospitalized.

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