# Fractures at Lowe's Home Centers, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20161211657` · 12/15/2016 · HORSEHEADS, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to slipping
- **Source:** Floor, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Ice, sleet, snow
## Employer
- **Name:** Lowe's Home Centers, LLC
- **Location:** 1235 State Route 13, HORSEHEADS, NEW YORK, 14845
- **NAICS:** 444110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was preparing to offload a compressor from a delivery truck and slipped on snow that had accumulated on the lift gate.  The employee fell into the bed of the truck and the compressor landed on and fractured his ankle.

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