# Fractures at Benchmark Foam, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025076408` · 7/2/2025 · WATERTOWN, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip joint(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to slip or trip
- **Source:** Other constructed surface
- **Secondary source:** Scales
## Employer
- **Name:** Benchmark Foam, Inc.
- **Location:** 401 Pheasant Ridge Drive, WATERTOWN, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57201
- **NAICS:** 326140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was stacking used cardboard onto a pallet in the shipping and receiving area when he tripped over the scale by the loading dock door. The employee fell to the concrete floor and was hospitalized with a fractured left hip that required surgery.

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