# Fractures at SJ&L General Contractor, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018076732` · 7/5/2018 · MADISON, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Graders, scrapers-construction
## Employer
- **Name:** SJ&L General Contractor, LLC
- **Location:** New Madison Ball Park, MADISON, ALABAMA, 35758
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing a cylinder on the steering column of a motor grader while standing on the raised blade. He hit the lever rod that controls the blade with his hands or arm, causing the blade to rotate and pinch his left leg between the grader and the step. His left leg broke.

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