# Fractures at Performance Contractors, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20201211970` · 12/23/2020 · DERIDDER, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s) and leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Motors other than vehicle
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Performance Contractors, Inc.
- **Location:** 4200 Highway 190 West, DERIDDER, LOUISIANA, 70634
- **NAICS:** 236210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A forklift was lowering a 7,500-pound motor onto timber cribbing. The timbers shifted and the motor moved, then slid off the forklift blades. It pinned an employee against a hydraulic skid, breaking the employee's left femur and right leg before the knee.

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