# Fractures at Axis Industrial Holdings, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022108741` · 10/4/2022 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower extremities, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Beams-unattached metal
## Employer
- **Name:** Axis Industrial Holdings, Inc.
- **Location:** 14807 Garrett Rd., HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77044
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were staging I-beam supports for new construction. As the forklift was lowering an I-beam, it shifted and struck an employee in the left foot and shin, causing an open fracture. The employee was hospitalized.

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