# Fractures at Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017032049` · 3/5/2017 · WEST POINT, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia, Inc.
- **Location:** 7777 Kia Parkway, WEST POINT, GEORGIA, 31833
- **NAICS:** 336111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was looking upward to find the source of an air leak when he stepped off the six inch platform and fell breaking the right tibia.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*