# Fractures at Greensouth Recycling, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024043581` · 4/24/2024 · JACKSON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip joint(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level  unspecified
- **Source:** Other constructed surface
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Greensouth Recycling, Inc.
- **Location:** 1698 GA-42, JACKSON, GEORGIA, 30233
- **NAICS:** 423310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to unhook the trailer from the tractor at the end of his shift and fell backward to the ground, breaking his hip. He was hospitalized for surgery.

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