# Fractures at SMM New England Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2018032903` · 3/26/2018 · PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Scrap metal
- **Secondary source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** SMM New England Corporation
- **Location:** 242 Allens Avenue, PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, 02905
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was erecting signage while other employees loaded scrap metal into a ship for export. During these loading operations, a piece of metal fell from a grapple and struck the employee's side and back. He suffered five broken ribs and two fractured vertebrae, requiring hospitalization.

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