# Bruises, contusions at Tenaris Koppel
> OSHA SIR `2023021807` · 2/27/2023 · KOPPEL, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Bruises, contusions
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Bars, rods, reinforcing bar (rebar)
- **Secondary source:** Bars, rods, reinforcing bar (rebar)
## Employer
- **Name:** Tenaris Koppel
- **Location:** 6403 6th Avenue, KOPPEL, PENNSYLVANIA, 16136
- **NAICS:** 331210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was scanning and parking steel bars that were staged on a rack prior to being loaded for shipment. While marking bars, they shifted, pinching the employee's right leg in the gap between two bars. The employee sustained a right leg contusion.

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