# Fractures at Ellwood Texas Forge Navasota
> OSHA SIR `2019088379` · 8/14/2019 · NAVASOTA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area, unspecified
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Ellwood Texas Forge Navasota
- **Location:** 10908 CR 419, NAVASOTA, TEXAS, 77868
- **NAICS:** 332111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were rigging up a conveyor to slide it out and lift it up with a forklift; one employee was on the far side of the conveyor and the other was operating the forklift. The tines on the forklift hit the first employee's lower left leg, breaking it.

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