# Fractures at Petrin Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2020010674` · 1/21/2020 · PLAQUEMINE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
- **Source:** Floor, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Petrin Corporation
- **Location:** 21255 LA-1, PLAQUEMINE, LOUISIANA, 70764
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was leaving his station for lunch after completing construction of a scaffold. While stepping over a pipe, he tripped and fell, twisting his leg and breaking his left tibia and fibula.

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