# Fractures at Cooper Tire & Rubber Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021054196` · 5/23/2021 · TEXARKANA, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by rolling object or equipment-other than powered vehicle, unspecified
- **Source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
- **Secondary source:** Guardrails, road dividers
## Employer
- **Name:** Cooper Tire & Rubber Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 3500 Washington St., TEXARKANA, ARKANSAS, 71854
- **NAICS:** 326211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was placing tire tread onto trays on a tread cart. When employee stepped down between the cart and the guardrail to straighten the tread, the tugger moved and pinned the employee's left leg between the guardrail and the cart and fractured it.

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