# Fractures at Wire 3
> OSHA SIR `2025010779` · 1/24/2025 · PORT SAINT LUCIE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Slip, trip, stumble while stepping between levels
- **Source:** Existing opening, hole in constructed surface
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Wire 3
- **Location:** 1421 SW Biltmore Street, PORT SAINT LUCIE, FLORIDA, 34983
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a cabinet panel. They stepped backward into an open hand hole where the fiber is fed into the cabinet. The height difference caused the employee to lose his balance and his right leg twisted with his body weight. The employee sustained fractures to his tibia and fibula.

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