# Fractures at RWJ Barnabas Health Medical Group
> OSHA SIR `2025054271` · 5/7/2025 · JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall while sitting
- **Source:** Chairs, single-person seating
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** RWJ Barnabas Health Medical Group
- **Location:** 377 Jersey Ave, JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, 07302
- **NAICS:** 621498
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was getting up from her chair when she twisted her left ankle and then injured her right foot while falling. The employee was hospitalized with a closed displaced trimalleolar fracture of the right ankle.

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