# Fractures at Rhode Island Hospital
> OSHA SIR `2017098673` · 9/9/2017 · PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by physical contact with person while moving that person-unintentional
- **Source:** Patient
## Employer
- **Name:** Rhode Island Hospital
- **Location:** 593 Eddy Street, PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, 02903
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee and a security guard were trying to get an upset patient out of a locked room. Once the patient was out of the locked room, the employee and the security guard attempted to physically move the patient onto a bed when both the patient and the security guard fell onto the employee, fracturing her tibial plateau.

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