# Fractures at Coastal Cargo Group
> OSHA SIR `2015031261` · 3/17/2015 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Strapping
## Employer
- **Name:** Coastal Cargo Group
- **Location:** 16800 Peninsula Blvd., HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77015
- **NAICS:** 488320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was hooking a crane hook onto bundles of rebar in a ship's cargo hold. Two bundles of rebar got stuck together, so the employee lowered the bundles and cut them from each other using bolt cutters. There was still some tension on one of the pieces of rebar; when the employee cut the bundle strap it swung, hitting and breaking his lower leg.

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