# Fractures at Cooper/Ports America, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018099852` · 9/24/2018 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment rolling freely
- **Source:** Bars, rods, reinforcing bar (rebar)
## Employer
- **Name:** Cooper/Ports America, LLC
- **Location:** 2315 Mccarty Street, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77029
- **NAICS:** 488320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was taking inventory of pieces of round bar. The round bar was sitting on an incline and rolled off the storage timbers striking the employee's legs fracturing both tibias.

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