# Fractures at VERITIV OPERATING COMPANY
> OSHA SIR `2017032418` · 3/15/2017 · LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Delivery truck or van
## Employer
- **Name:** VERITIV OPERATING COMPANY
- **Location:** University Hospital, LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA, 70506
- **NAICS:** 424130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was making a delivery and lowering the lift gate on the back of the truck when he tripped and fell from the lift gate breaking the left tibia.

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