# Fractures at Blachford Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025032350` · 3/12/2025 · WEST CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip joint(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Vehicle trailers, trailing units
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Blachford Inc.
- **Location:** 1445 Powis Road, WEST CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60185
- **NAICS:** 326150
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was taking equipment out of a trailer. He fell from the back of the trailer to the ground 3-4 feet below, breaking his left hip.

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