# Fractures at Blendon Gardens
> OSHA SIR `2023043423` · 4/17/2023 · LEWIS CENTER, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
- **Secondary source:** Trees, logs, limbs, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Blendon Gardens
- **Location:** 9590 South Old State Road, LEWIS CENTER, OHIO, 43035
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading trees from a flatbed semi-trailer. A tree branch hit him. He lost his balance near the edge of the trailer and fell to the ground, suffering a broken left tibia and fibula.

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