# Fractures at Texas Disposal Systems
> OSHA SIR `2025054568` · 5/14/2025 · WAELDER, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Tanks, bins, vats  except confined space
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Texas Disposal Systems
- **Location:** 1680 Co Rd 431, WAELDER, TEXAS, 78959
- **NAICS:** 562111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was servicing an onsite trash container when he lost his balance and fell from the container to the ground. He is leg was broken just above the knee.

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