# Fractures at Dow Freeport Texas Operations
> OSHA SIR `2017054389` · 5/15/2017 · FREEPORT, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot(feet) and leg(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall through surface or existing opening, unspecified
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Dow Freeport Texas Operations
- **Location:** 2301 N. Brazosport Blvd., FREEPORT, TEXAS, 77541
- **NAICS:** 325110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was ascending a portable ladder/platform system. The employee got to the top of the platform system and fell through the opening that would normally go over the man-hole of a tractor trailer, suffering a fractured heel and tibia.

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