# Fractures and dislocations at COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OF NEW ENGLAND
> OSHA SIR `2016010088` · 1/5/2016 · NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple lower extremities locations, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and dislocations
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Extension ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OF NEW ENGLAND
- **Location:** 45 Indistrial Drive, NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 01060
- **NAICS:** 312111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was coming down an 8-foot extension ladder when he misplaced his descending foot and it entered the space between the rungs.  As his leg went through the empty space, it came into contact with the ground, twisting him around and down the ladder. He dislocated his knee joint and broke his tibia.

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