# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at Precast Erectors, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023021241` · 2/8/2023 · ROUND ROCK, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Containers-variable restraint, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Precast Erectors, Inc.
- **Location:** 1300 Louis Henna Rd., ROUND ROCK, TEXAS, 78664
- **NAICS:** 238190
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was stacking and banding groups of pipe braces on a forklift so they could then be loaded onto trucks for transport. Each brace was 42 feet long and about 550 pounds. The 4-foot stack fell from the forklift forks and the employee was struck by several pipe braces resulting in a fracture to the lower right leg and a hernia.

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