# Amputations at Ellwood Texas Forge, L.P.
> OSHA SIR `2023031988` · 3/3/2023 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container
- **Secondary source:** Metal sheets, ingots, bars-nonstructural
## Employer
- **Name:** Ellwood Texas Forge, L.P.
- **Location:** 12500 Amelia Drive, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77045
- **NAICS:** 332111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using an overhead crane to move a 6,000-pound steel bar. As the bar was lifted, a bar behind it fell, hitting the bar that the employee was moving. That bar then swung and struck him in the left leg. The bar that fell also struck the employee's right leg. The right leg was amputated.

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