# Fractures at Process Engineered Equipment Company
> OSHA SIR `20181112067` · 11/26/2018 · LA VILLA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Catwalks
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Process Engineered Equipment Company
- **Location:** 17 Mile Rd & Uncle Tom Peters Dr, LA VILLA, TEXAS, 78562
- **NAICS:** 327390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While installing an air system from a walkway, an employee attempted to tighten a pipe with a pipe wrench. He used his body weight to apply more force and fell 12 feet from the walkway to the ground below, breaking his leg.

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