# Fractures at Capital Materials Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017087306` · 8/1/2017 · ATLANTA, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Wallboard, drywall, sheetrock
- **Secondary source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Capital Materials Inc.
- **Location:** 3150 Roswell Road, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, 30305
- **NAICS:** 423390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While transporting sheets of drywall with a cart, the sheet rock tipped over and fell on the employee's lower right leg breaking the tibia and fibula.

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