# Fractures at United Steel, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023042919` · 4/3/2023 · EAST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Rails-unattached metal
- **Secondary source:** Metal pipes, tubing
## Employer
- **Name:** United Steel, Inc.
- **Location:** 164 School Street, EAST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, 06108
- **NAICS:** 238190
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was preparing to cut pipes with a portable band saw. He undid the tie wire and leaned one end of a 20-foot long pipe on a removable rail. As he went to move the pipe, a different rail was knocked over. The rail fell onto the employee and struck his left leg, resulting in a left tibia/fibula fracture.

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