# Fractures at Topeka Foundry & Ironworks, Co
> OSHA SIR `2017098807` · 9/14/2017 · TOPEKA, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Benches, workbenches, saw horses
## Employer
- **Name:** Topeka Foundry & Ironworks, Co
- **Location:** 300 SW Jackson St, TOPEKA, KANSAS, 66603
- **NAICS:** 33152
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a rolling conveyor that was set on top of two sawhorses. The conveyor shifted and fell off the sawhorses, landing on and fracturing the employee's right ankle.

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