# Fractures at St.Thomas Aquinas High School
> OSHA SIR `2025032434` · 3/14/2025 · FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by door, gate, window
- **Source:** Gates
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** St.Thomas Aquinas High School
- **Location:** 2801 Southwest 12th Street, FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA, 33312
- **NAICS:** 611110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee reached through the vertical bars of a powered gate to enter the code on the keypad. The gate opened and the employee's hand was caught in the bars. The gate moved for 5 to 7 seconds and the employee was dragged 3 to 5 feet. The employee sustained a compound fracture of the lower right arm.

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