# Fractures at Freeman Signs, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022032543` · 3/21/2022 · DENVER, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Trailers
- **Secondary source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Freeman Signs, Inc.
- **Location:** 3883 N. Monaco Pkwy., DENVER, COLORADO, 80207
- **NAICS:** 339950
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to secure an 8- to 10-inch-thick, 40-foot-long pipe to a trailer. The pipe began to roll. The employee fell from the trailer while trying to stop the pipe's motion; the pipe then fell onto the employee's thigh and broke the employee's leg.

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