# Fractures at W & W Steel Erectors
> OSHA SIR `2019044278` · 4/27/2019 · ARLINGTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Structural metal materials, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** W & W Steel Erectors
- **Location:** 734 Stadium Dr., ARLINGTON, TEXAS, 76011
- **NAICS:** 238120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A journeyman iron worker was working on top of a piece of iron to cut it loose from the rigging. The piece rolled causing the journeyman to fall off the piece and strike his ribs on the connecting point.  The employee suffered two fractured ribs.

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