# Fractures at Center for Employment Opportunities
> OSHA SIR `2025010851` · 1/27/2025 · ROCHESTER, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to slip or trip
- **Source:** Other constructed surface
- **Secondary source:** Ice, sleet, snow, hail
## Employer
- **Name:** Center for Employment Opportunities
- **Location:** 1310 Monroe Avenue, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, 14620
- **NAICS:** 561310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing snow removal and salting walkways. He exited the work van to place a bucket of salt in the rear of the van. There was ice on the ground underneath the snow. He went to step forward and slipped and fell on the ice, striking his leg on a wooden pole behind him. The employee was hospitalized with a broken femur.

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