# Fractures at Joe Krentzman & Son Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023032342` · 3/15/2023 · LEWISTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Shoulder(s) and back
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Structural metal materials, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Joe Krentzman & Son Inc.
- **Location:** 3175 Back Maitland Road, LEWISTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, 17044
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was torch welding overhead steel and pulled it to break the cut when the material shifted, causing multiple steel objects to fall on him. He sustained two vertebrae fractures and a scapula fracture.

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