# Fractures at Corvias
> OSHA SIR `2021021455` · 2/18/2021 · FORT RILEY, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Ground, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Culverts, nonconfined ditches
## Employer
- **Name:** Corvias
- **Location:** 406 Pershing Ct, FORT RILEY, KANSAS, 66442
- **NAICS:** 336992
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a sewer auger machine to clear a blocked drain at a residence. He had inserted the auger into the outside clean-out when he slipped and fell into a drainage culvert, suffering fractures to the right tibia and fibula. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

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