# Amputations at United Brothers Development Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2017032715` · 3/24/2017 · JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Walls
- **Secondary source:** Bucket, front-end, end, and pay loaders
## Employer
- **Name:** United Brothers Development Corporation
- **Location:** Ryar Rd and Harvin Rd, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, 32216
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On March 24, 2017, an employee was spotting a front-end loader that was loading barrier walls onto a low boy trailer when one of the barrier walls (12 feet long, weighing about 5,000 pounds) fell on his ankle and fractured his left leg. He was hospitalized and his leg was amputated below his knee.

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