# Fractures at Somerset Steel Erection Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018055279` · 5/30/2018 · LOCK HAVEN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Structural elements, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Nails, brads, tacks, nuts, bolts, washers
## Employer
- **Name:** Somerset Steel Erection Company, Inc.
- **Location:** First Quality Tissue - Boston 3 Project, LOCK HAVEN, PENNSYLVANIA, 17745
- **NAICS:** 238120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was going back through and tightening bolts on the girt that was recently placed. While sitting on and tightening a girt, a bolt snapped causing the girt to slide down. The employee's left leg was pinched between the girt and beam. The employee was hospitalized with a leg fracture.

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