# Fractures at Department of Defense Education Activity
> OSHA SIR `2020021618` · 2/18/2020 · FORT BENNING, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Embankments
## Employer
- **Name:** Department of Defense Education Activity
- **Location:** 1375 Ingersoll St, FORT BENNING, GEORGIA, 31905
- **NAICS:** 611110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking from her personal vehicle back into the school by going down an embankment that was 18 feet long and had a slope of approximately 70 degrees. While walking down the embankment, she fell and broke her left leg (fibula and tibia).

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