# Fractures at Bluestem Communities
> OSHA SIR `2025010089` · 1/4/2025 · HESSTON, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other lower extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to slip or trip
- **Source:** Other constructed surface
- **Secondary source:** Ice, sleet, snow, hail
## Employer
- **Name:** Bluestem Communities
- **Location:** 701 S. M, HESSTON, KANSAS, 67062
- **NAICS:** 623110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was spreading ice melt on an icy sidewalk when they slipped and fell on their right side on the concrete sidewalk. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to their femur and pelvic bone.

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