# Fractures at Laurel Oaks Behavioral Health Center, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016021219` · 2/9/2016 · DOTHAN, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by physical contact with person while restraining, subduing-unintentional
- **Source:** Patient
## Employer
- **Name:** Laurel Oaks Behavioral Health Center, Inc.
- **Location:** 700 East Cottonwood Road, DOTHAN, ALABAMA, 36301
- **NAICS:** 623220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While trying to stop three patients from escaping an area of the facility, an employee was kicked in the leg by one of the patients. The employee suffered a broken tibia.

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