# Fractures at Home Goods
> OSHA SIR `2022032846` · 3/30/2022 · MOHEGAN LAKE, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
- **Secondary source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Home Goods
- **Location:** 3105 E. Main Street, MOHEGAN LAKE, NEW YORK, 10547
- **NAICS:** 452210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking across the top of an open dumpster trying to level out the trash in it. He fell from the top metal ledge of the dumpster and suffered a broken left ankle that required surgery.

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