# Fractures at Cosentino North America
> OSHA SIR `2015020523` · 2/18/2015 · DEL VALLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
- **Secondary source:** Clamps, couplings
## Employer
- **Name:** Cosentino North America
- **Location:** 7600 Elroy Road, DEL VALLE, TEXAS, 78617
- **NAICS:** 444190
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employee delivering slabs of solid surface material was standing on a truck flat bed while employees of the receiving company unloaded a slab.  The Abaco clamp holding the material gave way, releasing the load and knocked the injured employee from the truck bed.  The slab broke into pieces and a section fell, striking the injured employee below the knees on both legs breaking them. The injuries required hospitalization and surgery.

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