# Fractures at Wheeler Metals Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `20191213306` · 12/31/2019 · SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Bundles, bales
- **Secondary source:** Racks-garment and other
## Employer
- **Name:** Wheeler Metals Incorporated
- **Location:** 2321 Kearney Street, SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI, 65803
- **NAICS:** 423510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was reaching into the second level of a rack to cut a strap on product. A bundle of pipes on the first level of the rack rolled off and struck the employee's right foot, breaking bones.

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