# Fractures at Southern Motion
> OSHA SIR `2024064971` · 6/6/2024 · PONTOTOC, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Loading docks, dock plates
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Southern Motion
- **Location:** 195 Henry Southern Drive, PONTOTOC, MISSISSIPPI, 38863
- **NAICS:** 337127
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading a truck with product, reached to open the shipping door but grabbed a loading bar instead, causing him to fall out of the door. The employee fell approximately 4 feet to the ground and sustained a fracture to the lower right leg.

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