# Fractures at Eshbach Brothers, LP
> OSHA SIR `2019076609` · 7/1/2019 · ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Building materials, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, n.e.c
## Employer
- **Name:** Eshbach Brothers, LP
- **Location:** 777 W. Walnut St., ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, 18103
- **NAICS:** 238140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A lift was being used to place a stack of ten scaffold planks on an erected scaffold. Several planks fell off the lift and hit an employee, pinning the employee's leg between the planks and construction equipment. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured leg.

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