# Fractures at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
> OSHA SIR `2025021207` · 2/6/2025 · LEBANON, NEW HAMPSHIRE
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip joint(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Other constructed surface
- **Secondary source:** Ice, sleet, snow, hail
## Employer
- **Name:** Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
- **Location:** 1 Medical Center Drive, LEBANON, NEW HAMPSHIRE, 03756
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking on a snow-covered paved walkway when they stepped off the edge of the walkway and lost their balance. The employee fell to the flat surface, resulting in a left hip fracture.

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