# Fractures at Weldfit Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2023021606` · 2/20/2023 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Pallet jack-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Weldfit Corporation
- **Location:** 4133 Southerland Rd., HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77092
- **NAICS:** 333249
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a 2,500-pound stenciling machine into a lab using a manual pallet jack. As he was pushing it through the door it became jammed. The employee pushed it through the door and the stencil machine fell onto him, fracturing his femur. The employee was hospitalized.

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