# Fractures at Behlen Manufacturing Company
> OSHA SIR `2019077407` · 7/20/2019 · COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Angle irons
- **Secondary source:** Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container
## Employer
- **Name:** Behlen Manufacturing Company
- **Location:** 4025 E 23rd, COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, 68602
- **NAICS:** 332311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading angle iron onto a trough which was attached to an overhead crane. The trough became disconnected from the overhead crane and it fell along with the angle iron, striking the employee. She sustained fractures to the tibia, six ribs, and multiple vertebrae.

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