# Fractures and dislocations at VA Maine Healthcare System
> OSHA SIR `2017032782` · 3/27/2017 · AUGUSTA, MAINE
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s) and leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and dislocations
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to slipping
- **Source:** Floor, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Food products, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** VA Maine Healthcare System
- **Location:** 1 VA Center, AUGUSTA, MAINE, 04330
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking into the canteen to get lunch when she slipped and fell on an area where a customer recently had spilled their food and cleaned it up. She dislocated her patella and fractured a femur.

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