# Fractures at Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018054538` · 5/10/2018 · PARSONS, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
## Employer
- **Name:** Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc.
- **Location:** 2025 Union Ave, PARSONS, KANSAS, 67357
- **NAICS:** 484122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on the loading dock, loading a trailer. He climbed onto the trailer-door track-guard at the rear of the trailer to reach and strap freight, securing it in the trailer. He slipped off the door-track guard and fell into the gap between the trailer and dock, sustaining multiple fractures to his right ankle.

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