# Fractures at Sears Home Services
> OSHA SIR `2016109568` · 10/10/2016 · RICHMOND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
## Employer
- **Name:** Sears Home Services
- **Location:** Cowboy way & Settegast Ranch Road, RICHMOND, TEXAS, 77406
- **NAICS:** 811412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee parked outside on the side of the street. When he opened his van's back door, a box fell out of the van and went into the ditch. As he attempted to get the box, he fell several feet into the ditch and broke his left tibia in his lower left leg.

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