# Fractures at Merchants Metals
> OSHA SIR `2023043630` · 4/23/2023 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Metalworking lathes
- **Secondary source:** Tools, instruments, and equipment, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Merchants Metals
- **Location:** 4901 Langley Rd, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77093
- **NAICS:** 332812
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Three employees were moving a lathe machine that had been put on skates. While adjusting a skate to change its direction, the skate was knocked out from under the machine. The lathe then fell, striking an employee's right leg and breaking their tibia. The employee was hospitalized.

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