# Fractures at Steel Dynamics, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019054935` · 5/15/2019 · COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Confined spaces, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Molten or hot metals, slag
## Employer
- **Name:** Steel Dynamics, Inc.
- **Location:** 1945 Airport Road, COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI, 39701
- **NAICS:** 331111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working under a platform when a piece of slag fell off the furnace, hitting him in the hard hat and knocking him into a 2.5-foot pit. He suffered injuries to his scalp and a fractured leg.

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