# Fractures at KS Energy Services
> OSHA SIR `2018054940` · 5/21/2018 · NEW BERLIN, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** KS Energy Services
- **Location:** 19705 W. Lincoln Ave, NEW BERLIN, WISCONSIN, 53146
- **NAICS:** 236210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was placing skids for pipes that needed to be unloaded when a mechanical lifting device failed, allowing a steel pipe to hit the employee's right leg. The employee sustained a broken right femur.

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