# Fractures at Chase Farms
> OSHA SIR `2025021450` · 2/13/2025 · FABENS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Dimensional lumber
- **Secondary source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
## Employer
- **Name:** Chase Farms
- **Location:** 681 Island Rd., FABENS, TEXAS, 79838
- **NAICS:** 111335
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working in the pecan orchard. He went to cross a cement irrigation ditch via a wooden plank that was extended across the ditch. The wooden plank snapped in two, and the employee fell approximately 2 feet, 8 inches into the irrigation ditch. The employee was hospitalized with two fractures to his lower left leg.

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