# Fractures at WEST BOCA MEDICAL CENTER, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2017010980` · 1/31/2017 · BOCA RATON, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by physical contact with person while restraining, subduing-unintentional
- **Source:** Patient
## Employer
- **Name:** WEST BOCA MEDICAL CENTER, INC.
- **Location:** 21644 STATE ROAD 7, BOCA RATON, FLORIDA, 33428
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was restraining a patient when the patient sat on his left leg and fractured the tibia and fibula.

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