# Fractures at Kinder Morgan Deepwater
> OSHA SIR `2025032105` · 3/5/2025 · PASADENA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip joint(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Cranes other mobile cranes
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Kinder Morgan Deepwater
- **Location:** 4207 Pasadena Freeway, PASADENA, TEXAS, 77503
- **NAICS:** 482111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee climbed up on the tread of a crane to turn the batteries back on and was turning to step away when the battery lid opened back up. The battery lid caught his boot, causing him to lose his balance and fall to the tread. He then fell to the ground 36 inches below. The employee sustained a fractured femur head.

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