# Fractures at TOPPS MECHANICAL, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2016043062` · 4/12/2016 · BEATRICE, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Product testing, inspecting, and diagnostic machinery, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** TOPPS MECHANICAL, INC.
- **Location:** 501 Sargent Street, BEATRICE, NEBRASKA, 68310
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping to stabilize an optical comparator on the forks of a forklift when the machine shifted slightly. One corner of the machine slipped off the edge of the fork and hit the employee's leg above the ankle. The employee was hospitalized with a broken leg.

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