# Fractures at DEPT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS-VA CENTRAL IA HEALTH CARE
> OSHA SIR `2015053025` · 5/19/2015 · DES MOINES, IOWA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level while climbing stairs, steps, or curbs
- **Source:** Curbs
## Employer
- **Name:** DEPT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS-VA CENTRAL IA HEALTH CARE
- **Location:** 3600 30TH STREET, DES MOINES, IOWA, 50310
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was walking in to work for the night shift at around 1400hrs and fell breaking the tibia and fibula of the right leg. The employee has been hospitalized. The employee doesn't recall exactly what happened, but believes that when stepping up onto a curb, a foot slipped off the curb resulting in the fall.

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