# Fractures at M1 Support Services
> OSHA SIR `2024065489` · 6/20/2024 · FORT NOVOSEL, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level resulting from exposure or contact  unspecified
- **Source:** Helicopters, powered rotary wing aircraft
- **Secondary source:** Fan and turbine parts
## Employer
- **Name:** M1 Support Services
- **Location:** 1117 Dilly Branch Road, FORT NOVOSEL, ALABAMA, 36362
- **NAICS:** 488190
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A maintenance crew was working on a helicopter. The injured employee climbed the back of the helicopter to attach a tie-down rope to the aircraft rotor. While he was securing the rope to the rotor, it rotated and struck him, causing him to slide down the side of the helicopter and strike the fuel fuselage before impacting the ground. The employee fractured his left tibia and fibula.

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