# Fractures at Rescar Companies
> OSHA SIR `2019055255` · 5/24/2019 · PASADENA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Toes(s), toenail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Clamps, couplings
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Rescar Companies
- **Location:** 1400 Jefferson Rd, PASADENA, TEXAS, 77506
- **NAICS:** 488210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were installing a coupler in a rail car. The coupler got stuck to the forks on the forklift and as they were attempting to loosen the coupler, it fell onto an employee's right foot causing an open fracture to the big toe.

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