# Fractures at Sterling Jewelers
> OSHA SIR `2024054215` · 5/13/2024 · TARENTUM, 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:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Sterling Jewelers
- **Location:** 1020 Village Center Drive, TARENTUM, PENNSYLVANIA, 15084
- **NAICS:** 448310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a step stool in the backroom putting papers into a box on a shelf. As the employee was stepping down from the stool he fell onto the floor, resulting in a fractured hip.

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