# Crushing injuries at Katy Steel Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016065667` · 6/24/2016 · KATY, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Face, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Hooks, shackles, magnets, clamshells
- **Secondary source:** Chains, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Katy Steel Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 28017 U. S. Highway 90, KATY, TEXAS, 77494
- **NAICS:** 332312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving an overhead crane and had the crane remote in his hand. He was lifting a bundle of rebar with the crane. There was another free-swinging chain hanging from the crane. The hook at the end of the free-swinging chain hit the employee in the face, crushing the right side.

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