# Fractures at VA Caribbean Healthcare System
> OSHA SIR `2025087651` · 8/4/2025 · SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with other person while providing medical or custodial care
- **Source:** Patient
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** VA Caribbean Healthcare System
- **Location:** 10 Casia St, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO, 00921
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was working with an uncooperative patient when the patient fell onto their arm. The employee sustained two fractures to their arm and required surgery.

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