# Fractures at Nucor Steel of Auburn
> OSHA SIR `2017087390` · 8/3/2017 · AUBURN, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Rolling mills, rolling, calendering machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Nucor Steel of Auburn
- **Location:** 25 Quarry Road, AUBURN, NEW YORK, 13021
- **NAICS:** 331221
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to remove a pin from the west end of a billet reject beam when the beam became loose and struck the employee on the left leg, fracturing the tibia and requiring hospitalization.

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