# Fractures at Giant Eagle GetGo
> OSHA SIR `2015010787` · 1/25/2015 · CARNEGIE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to slipping
- **Source:** Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
- **Secondary source:** Ice, sleet, snow
## Employer
- **Name:** Giant Eagle GetGo
- **Location:** 1137 Washington Avenue, CARNEGIE, PENNSYLVANIA, 15106
- **NAICS:** 445120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was bringing a newspaper rack out of a storage shed when she slipped on ice/snow that was on the shed's ramp, resulting in her falling to the ground and striking a nearby safety bollard with her leg.  She sustained a fractured tibia and fibula and underwent surgery later that afternoon and was admitted to the hospital.

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