# Fractures at Mayville Engineering Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20171110685` · 11/6/2017 · MAYVILLE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Vehicle and mobile equipment parts, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Mayville Engineering Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 715 South Street, MAYVILLE, WISCONSIN, 53050
- **NAICS:** 332999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a 900-pound counterweight rigging to transfer it to a forklift when the counterweight fell to the ground during the transfer and landed on the employee's lower right leg. The employee sustained multiple fractures to the lower leg, requiring surgery and hospitalization.

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