# Fractures at TAM Scrapyard, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017043826` · 4/12/2017 · FORDYCE, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Trailers
## Employer
- **Name:** TAM Scrapyard, LLC
- **Location:** 111 W. 4th St, FORDYCE, ARKANSAS, 71742
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a utility trailer hooking chains from a loader onto a big air conditioning unit that was brought for scrapping. After hooking the chains, the employee slipped on top of the unit and fell to the trailer floor, landing on his left foot and breaking his lower left leg. He was hospitalized for surgery.

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