# Fractures at Great Dane LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023098289` · 9/8/2023 · DANVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Sheet metal
- **Secondary source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Great Dane LLC
- **Location:** 891 Strick Road, DANVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, 17821
- **NAICS:** 336212
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was picking up sheared material and stacking it on a waist-level cart. The employee moved the cart and it fell over. Approximately 40 pieces of sheet metal (weighing about 20 pounds each) fell from the cart and struck the employee's right lower leg, fracturing the tibia. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

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