# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at Bridgeton Landfill
> OSHA SIR `2017010287` · 1/10/2017 · BRIDGETON, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple lower extremities locations, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to slipping
- **Source:** Ground, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Bridgeton Landfill
- **Location:** 13570 Saint Charles Rock Road, BRIDGETON, MISSOURI, 63044
- **NAICS:** 562212
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was retrieving a hard hat that had blown off his head and onto the grass when he slipped on the wet grass, twisting his ankle and falling to the ground. The employee suffered a fractured left fibula with bone chips in the vicinity of his ankle and ligament damage. The employee was hospitalized for surgery.

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