# Fractures at Patriot Dozer Service, L.L.C.
> OSHA SIR `2024087485` · 8/14/2024 · VICTORIA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Slopes, embankments
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Patriot Dozer Service, L.L.C.
- **Location:** 14832 US 77 North, VICTORIA, TEXAS, 77904
- **NAICS:** 237130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On August 14, 2024, an employee was aligning a 6-inch plastic pipe while on a 50-degree slope when their right foot slipped and they fell, resulting in a fractured right tibia that required hospitalization.

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