# Fractures at McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022021473` · 2/15/2022 · FREEPORT, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Parts and materials, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.
- **Location:** 639 East 2nd St., FREEPORT, TEXAS, 77541
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping to move a 1,600-pound piece of steel from the ground to a barge. The steel rotated and hit the employee in the lower right leg, fracturing it. The employee was hospitalized.

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