# Fractures at U.S. Department of the Interior
> OSHA SIR `2017065122` · 6/5/2017 · SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Embankments
## Employer
- **Name:** U.S. Department of the Interior
- **Location:** 41?24'23.58"N, 75?40'22.18"W, SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 18503
- **NAICS:** 712190
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On June 5, 2017, at 11:50 AM, an employee was directing a tour of elementary school children and  attempting to retrieve biological samples from the Lackawanna River with a net. The employee dropped the net into the river. While attempting to retrieve the net, the employee fell down an 8-foot embankment and landed in the river, breaking three ribs and four vertebrae. The employee was hospitalized.

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