A Smith's fracture is a distal radius fracture across the wrist while the wrist is in flexion.  Our lawyers see many of Smith's fractures in slip and fall cases because this injury commonly occurs when people fall on a flexed wrist. I suffered a Smith's fracture in the third-grade playing football.  This injury can also occur by forcefully striking an object with the wrist in a flexed position.  A Smith's fracture is a fracture of the volar rim of the distal radius.  It is not a common distal radius fracture, but we seem to have a lot of clients who have suffered this fracture (or I'm more in tune with it because I suffered the same fracture).