# Fractures at State Garden
> OSHA SIR `2024076425` · 7/16/2024 · CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to slip or trip
- **Source:** Other constructed surface
- **Secondary source:** Bags, sacks
## Employer
- **Name:** State Garden
- **Location:** 300 Third Street, CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS, 02150
- **NAICS:** 424410
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading bags into the dumpster and used the controls to begin crushing the bags. He threw an additional bag up into the dumpster and walked around the front side of the trash compactor. He slipped on a bag and fell forward, striking the granite curbing on the front side of the dumpster as he fell. The employee sustained fractures to 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*