# Fractures at Valmont Utility Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019066143` · 6/18/2019 · BARTOW, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Valmont Utility Inc.
- **Location:** 4131 HWY 17 South, BARTOW, FLORIDA, 33830
- **NAICS:** 444110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working in a de-molding section. While he was walking on the back of the plate of the mold, the tension plate fell off and landed on his legs. His left fibula was broken and tissue was torn in his right leg, requiring stitching. He was hospitalized.

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