# Fractures at Laurel Machine and Foundry Company
> OSHA SIR `2019032615` · 3/12/2019 · LAUREL, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Metal sheets, ingots, bars-nonstructural
- **Secondary source:** Cranes-other fixed or stationary cranes
## Employer
- **Name:** Laurel Machine and Foundry Company
- **Location:** 810 Front St., LAUREL, MISSISSIPPI, 39440
- **NAICS:** 331511
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was lifting a piece of steel weighing approximately 100 lbs. onto the work bench utilizing a magnetic lifting device attached to a jib crane. When the employee began to move the piece of steel, it fell from the magnet and struck the employee's left foot. The employee was hospitalized for foot fractures.

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