# Fractures at Roberts Supply, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024043635` · 4/25/2024 · WINTER PARK, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower extremities  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Other constructed surface
- **Secondary source:** Rope, twine, string
## Employer
- **Name:** Roberts Supply, Inc.
- **Location:** 4203 Metric Drive, WINTER PARK, FLORIDA, 32792
- **NAICS:** 444210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On April 25, 2024, around 10:00 a.m., a service technician was pulling on a rope to relieve the belt tension on a mower deck to remove the idler spring when the rope broke and he fell backward, fracturing his right leg/ankle.

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