# Fractures at Applied Machinery Corporate Office
> OSHA SIR `2017032437` · 3/16/2017 · CONROE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Metal pipes, tubing
- **Secondary source:** Jacks
## Employer
- **Name:** Applied Machinery Corporate Office
- **Location:** 14737 Firetower Road, CONROE, TEXAS, 77306
- **NAICS:** 423830
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees placed tubing for a welding job on a jack stand to balance it. While discussing how to proceed with the job, the injured employee placed his hand on the tubing and it rolled over and struck his lower right leg fracturing it.

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