# Fractures at Waukegan Steel, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2023087916` · 8/28/2023 · WAUKEGAN, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Beams-unattached metal
- **Secondary source:** Cranes, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Waukegan Steel, LLC.
- **Location:** 1201 Belvidere Street, WAUKEGAN, ILLINOIS, 60085
- **NAICS:** 332312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A temporary employee used a crane to lower a steel I-beam and placed it on cribbing blocks on the floor. As he was retracting the steel lifting clamp of the crane, the clamp hit the underside of the beam and knocked it over. The falling beam fractured the employee's left leg.

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