# Fractures at Kiewit Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2020098649` · 9/11/2020 · GREGORY, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
- **Source:** Tools, instruments, and equipment, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Sledges, sledgehammers
## Employer
- **Name:** Kiewit Corporation
- **Location:** GCGV-Olifins Recovery Project, GREGORY, TEXAS, 78359
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The injured employee was aligning a crane girder at the gas compressor building using a 10-ton hydraulic ram and three steel wedges. The employee was removing the last wedge using an 8-pound sledgehammer as another employee stood on the concrete off to the left side holding a tool tether attached to the wedge with python tape. As the injured employee was backing out the last wedge from the right side via a sledgehammer, the wedge unexpectedly came out from in between the column and the shim, striking the injured employee on the lower left leg and fracturing it.

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