# Fractures at Murphy Road Recycling LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023087753` · 8/23/2023 · BERLIN, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
- **Secondary source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Murphy Road Recycling LLC
- **Location:** 655 Christian Lane, BERLIN, CONNECTICUT, 06037
- **NAICS:** 562111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was sweeping loose materials from a dock leveler when a truck pulled away from the loading dock. This caused the dock leveler to drop and the employee to fall to the ground, resulting in left tibia and fibula fractures that required hospitalization and surgery.

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