# Fractures at Frontier Cooperative Company
> OSHA SIR `20181212726` · 12/11/2018 · COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Structures and surfaces, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Wrenches-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Frontier Cooperative Company
- **Location:** 24072 310th Ave., COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, 68601
- **NAICS:** 493130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While an employee was replacing a valve using a plumber's wrench, the wrench slipped from his hands, causing the employee to lose his balance and fall onto his knee from a step approximately 12-18 inches high. The employee's lower leg was broken.

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