# Fractures at Greenridge Waste Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024087329` · 8/9/2024 · JEANNETTE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Collision with stationary object, nonroadway
- **Source:** Garbage trucks
- **Secondary source:** Trees
## Employer
- **Name:** Greenridge Waste Services, LLC
- **Location:** 2110 Baughman Road, JEANNETTE, PENNSYLVANIA, 15644
- **NAICS:** 562111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a residential front-load refuse truck in the stand-up position on the passenger side. The top of the truck struck a tree that was hanging over the road and the employee was ejected. The employee was hospitalized with a fracture to his lower right ankle and required surgery.

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