# Fractures at MOSS & ASSOCIATES, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024065480` · 6/20/2024 · PALM CITY, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Vehicle trailers, trailing units
- **Secondary source:** Tires, inner tubes
## Employer
- **Name:** MOSS & ASSOCIATES, LLC
- **Location:** 16364 SW Citrus Blvd, PALM CITY, FLORIDA, 34990
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working to position rigging from the back of a low-boy trailer. He was walking on the top bed of the trailer when he stepped on a free-spinning tire on a tag axle (raised rear axle). The employee lost balance and jumped approximately 3 feet to the ground. He was hospitalized with fractures to the right tibia and fibula and required surgery.

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