# Fractures at Bell Processing, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017087857` · 8/16/2017 · WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Bell Processing, Inc.
- **Location:** 1326 BURKBURNETT ROAD, WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, 76307
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was emptying metal from a dump hopper that was on a forklift when the hopper fell from the forks and struck the employee on the left leg, breaking it.

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