# Fractures at Top Flight Steel, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017088107` · 8/23/2017 · GEORGETOWN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple leg locations, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Beams-unattached metal
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Top Flight Steel, Inc.
- **Location:** 5721 Williams Drive, GEORGETOWN, TEXAS, 78628
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cinching up a rigging cable on a forklift when a steel beam fell off the forklift and struck the employee's legs, breaking the left femur and right tibia.

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