# Fractures at Navy Trident Refit Facility Bangor
> OSHA SIR `2024053969` · 5/6/2024 · SILVERDALE, WASHINGTON
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds, staging  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Scaffolds, staging  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Navy Trident Refit Facility Bangor
- **Location:** 7000 Finback Circle, SILVERDALE, WASHINGTON, 98315
- **NAICS:** 336611
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was exiting the main ballast tank when they slipped off the scaffold ladder and fell onto the lower-level scaffold platform. They fell approximately five ladder rungs and sustained a compound fracture to their left ankle.

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