Many fractures relate to an occupation, where there is a specific activity prone to certain injuries:
- aviator fracture: talar neck
- boxer fracture: 5th metacarpal
- chauffeur fracture: radial styloid
- clay-shoveler fracture: 7th cervical spinous process
- dancer (Jones) fracture: proximal 5th metatarsal shaft
- hangman fracture: C2
- march fracture: 2nd metatarsal
- nightstick fracture: shaft of ulna
- paratrooper fracture: isolated posterior malleolus
- skier thumb/gamekeeper thumb