# Fractures at Qualico Steel Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019043405` · 4/2/2019 · WEBB, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Qualico Steel Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 7797 E. STATE HIGHWAY 52, WEBB, ALABAMA, 36376
- **NAICS:** 332312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had just finished loading metal products onto a flatbed trailer and was attempting to egress the flatbed trailer by stepping on the frame of an adjacent machine when the employee fell approximately 3 to 4 feet to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with broken bones (including a compound fracture) to the left tibia and fibula.

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