# Fractures at American Builders and Contractors Supply Co., Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021109253` · 10/27/2021 · SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Parts and materials, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Racks-garment and other
## Employer
- **Name:** American Builders and Contractors Supply Co., Inc.
- **Location:** 152 Fisk Ave, SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, 01107
- **NAICS:** 423330
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On October 27, 2021, two employees were assembling a shelving unit with a co-worker. A boom attachment on the top shelf of the racking fell down as the two employees were pulling on the crossbar to lower one of the shelves in the middle of the rack. The boom fell and hit the crossbar, jamming it in an employee's left collar bone and chest. The cross bar then fell and landed on the other employee's feet, resulting in a fracture and hospitalization.

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