# Fractures at R&S STEEL
> OSHA SIR `2016099125` · 9/27/2016 · DENVER, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Metal pipes, tubing
- **Secondary source:** Bundles, bales
## Employer
- **Name:** R&S STEEL
- **Location:** 3811 JOLIET, DENVER, COLORADO, 80239
- **NAICS:** 423510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pulling metal pipes from a bundle of six. He was breaking the metal bands that were holding the bundle together to retrieve two of the six. As he was cutting the final band, two of the metal pipes fell from the bundle and struck his right leg, breaking it.

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