# Fractures and dislocations at Gordon Food Service, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023032617` · 3/23/2023 · TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and dislocations
## Cause
- **Event:** Bending, crawling, reaching, twisting-single episode
- **Source:** Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
## Employer
- **Name:** Gordon Food Service, Inc.
- **Location:** 630 John Hancock Road, TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 02780
- **NAICS:** 424410
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was doing custodial work. As he bent to pick up a piece of trash, his knee buckled and dislocated. He suffered a broken kneecap that required surgery and hospitalization.

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