Mr B Is a Maintenance Worker at a Junior College

Mr. B is a maintenance worker at a junior college. While changing bulbs in an overhead fixture in a stairway in one of the buildings on campus, he lost his balance, fell from a ladder, and experienced a fracture of his leg. You have been asked to review his case for Worker's Compensation purposes. You note that the physician has described the injury as a "complicated fracture of the left femur." This means that the break in the bone:

A) does not extend all the way through the bone
B) pierced the skin, causing the bone to protrude outside the skin
C) is at a slant and extends through the bone from one side to the other, including the outer covering of the bone
D) has injured blood vessels, nerves, and other tissue around the bone