# Fractures at Fort Drum Garrison
> OSHA SIR `2024031899` · 3/1/2024 · FORT DRUM, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet)  excluding toes
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Vehicle trailers, trailing units
- **Secondary source:** Concrete paving machines, pavers
## Employer
- **Name:** Fort Drum Garrison
- **Location:** Building 20230, FORT DRUM, NEW YORK, 13602
- **NAICS:** 928110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading a paving machine onto a trailer. The machine began to slide back off the trailer, and the employee jumped from the trailer to the ground to avoid it. He suffered a broken foot/heel, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

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