# Fractures at Walmart, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025010214` · 1/7/2025 · NEBRASKA CITY, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip joint(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object dropped by person
- **Source:** Boxes, crates, cartons
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Walmart, Inc.
- **Location:** 2101 South 11th Street, NEBRASKA CITY, NEBRASKA, 68410
- **NAICS:** 452319
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on the top of a stock ladder to get a freight box. On the way down, the box started to fall. The employee went to catch it, but it fell and landed on their hip and elbow and resulted in a fractured hip.

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