# Fractures at Tait
> OSHA SIR `20181112119` · 11/27/2018 · LITITZ, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Parts and materials, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Material and personnel hoists
## Employer
- **Name:** Tait
- **Location:** 401 West Lincoln Avenue, LITITZ, PENNSYLVANIA, 17543
- **NAICS:** 713990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a piece of steel with a five-ton hoist. The metal cut the sling and the steel dropped onto the employee's foot fracturing the metatarsals.

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