# Fractures at Erie Strayer Company
> OSHA SIR `20191010783` · 10/15/2019 · ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Beams-unattached metal
- **Secondary source:** Overhead hoists, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Erie Strayer Company
- **Location:** 1851 Rudolph Avenue, ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA, 16502
- **NAICS:** 333120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a hoist to move steel I-beams and set up an area. As he was moving an I-beam, it bumped into another I-beam and caused it to fall over. The falling I-beam landed on the employee's left leg, breaking it. He was hospitalized and had surgery.

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