# Fractures at Star Electric Company of Texas
> OSHA SIR `2020032805` · 3/26/2020 · PECOS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Towers, poles, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
## Employer
- **Name:** Star Electric Company of Texas
- **Location:** N 31.361894 W 103.212175, PECOS, TEXAS, 79772
- **NAICS:** 237130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was rolling a pole on a trailer to unload it when the pole fell from the trailer and struck the employee's left leg, resulting in a broken tibia/fibula.

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