# Fractures at UTLX Manufacturing LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018099639` · 9/18/2018 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Vehicle and mobile equipment parts, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** UTLX Manufacturing LLC
- **Location:** 16923 Old Beaumont Hwy 90, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77049
- **NAICS:** 339999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assembling truck wheels for tank cars. When he cut the banding straps from side frame parts, the side frames fell on and struck his leg below the knee, fracturing his shin. He was hospitalized.

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