# Fractures at Pacific Steel & Recycling
> OSHA SIR `2023010306` · 1/11/2023 · BROWNING, MONTANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Automobile
- **Secondary source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, n.e.c
## Employer
- **Name:** Pacific Steel & Recycling
- **Location:** A&P Bumper Service, BROWNING, MONTANA, 59417
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were operating a truck-mounted car baler to bale cars at a local wrecking yard. A car slid out of the grapple, falling approximately 8 feet and striking another car. That car then struck the injured employee. The employee sustained crushing injuries and fractures.

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