# Fractures at ABF Freight
> OSHA SIR `2025010807` · 1/25/2025 · SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip joint(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Other semi, tractor-trailer
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** ABF Freight
- **Location:** 8630 Hall Street, SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI, 63137
- **NAICS:** 484230
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A driver was securing freight in the back of a trailer. He climbed onto the converter gear to adjust the load and resecure the trailer door. He slipped off the converter gear and fell to the pavement, sustaining a right intertrochanteric femur fracture.

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