# Fractures at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Intermediate Maintenance Facility
> OSHA SIR `2022075890` · 7/6/2022 · BREMERTON, WASHINGTON
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Upper arm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
- **Source:** Sidewalks, paths, outdoor walkways, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Chains, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Intermediate Maintenance Facility
- **Location:** PSNS IMF Branch Clinic building 940, BREMERTON, WASHINGTON, 98314
- **NAICS:** 336611
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was walking to the clinic when they tripped on a chain used to keep vehicles out of the ambulance loading dock. The employee hit their elbow on the sidewalk, sustaining an open fracture to the left humerus.

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