# Fractures at Sievert Electric Service & Sales Company
> OSHA SIR `2015119006` · 11/24/2015 · SKOKIE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Beams-unattached metal
## Employer
- **Name:** Sievert Electric Service & Sales Company
- **Location:** 7450 N. McCormick Boulevard, SKOKIE, ILLINOIS, 60076
- **NAICS:** 333923
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assisting in moving a monorail frame steel structure by rigging the frame to a winch and roust about. The steel cable carrying a 1,800 pound steel beam snapped and the steel beam fell to the floor, bounced, and struck the employee on the upper left leg and breaking the femur bone.

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