# Fractures at Utz Quality Foods, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025011025` · 1/31/2025 · BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Utz Quality Foods, LLC
- **Location:** 531 Eagen Road, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, 35214
- **NAICS:** 311919
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was plugging IT equipment into an IT box that was bolted to a wall approximately 6 feet off the floor. The employee was standing on an 8-foot step ladder when the door of the box swung toward the employee. He lost his balance and fell from the ladder to the concrete floor, resulting in a fractured femur.

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