# Fractures at United Airlines, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025054974` · 5/27/2025 · DENVER, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Upper and lower extremities  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Airport utility vehicle  powered
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** United Airlines, Inc.
- **Location:** 8500 Pena Blvd, DENVER, COLORADO, 80249
- **NAICS:** 481111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was downloading bags off an aircraft. Upon exiting the cargo compartment, and while climbing down the steps of the belt loader, the employee lost her footing, slipped, and fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to her wrist and hip.

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