# Fractures at USA Environmental, LP
> OSHA SIR `2016098973` · 9/22/2016 · BAYTOWN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
- **Source:** Hoses
- **Secondary source:** Heating, cooling, and cleaning machinery and appliances, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** USA Environmental, LP
- **Location:** Chevron Phillips Cedar Bayou, BAYTOWN, TEXAS, 77521
- **NAICS:** 562910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pressure washing pipes with a steam cleaner when the steam hose became disconnected from the cleaner and whipped around, striking the employee in the leg and fracturing the tibia and fibula. The employee was hospitalized for surgery.

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