# Fractures at Blue Heron Construction Company, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021065164` · 6/24/2021 · LAKE GEORGE, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Structural elements, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Blue Heron Construction Company, LLC
- **Location:** 1 Treatment Dr., LAKE GEORGE, NEW YORK, 12845
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was directing an operator in setting a catch basin at an excavation site when the catch basin hit an excavation wall and one of the chains came loose, allowing the catch basin to fall approximately 3 feet onto the employee's leg. The employee suffered a fractured leg that required hospitalization.

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