# Fractures at Matcon Diamond
> OSHA SIR `2017065381` · 6/13/2017 · SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Posts, bollards, moorings
## Employer
- **Name:** Matcon Diamond
- **Location:** Shields Lock & Dam, SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, 15143
- **NAICS:** 238110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping an excavator set a 16-foot steel post. The rigging was removed before the post had been bolted in place. The steel post then fell and struck the employee, who suffered a broken leg and was hospitalized.

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