# Fractures at Louisiana Chemical Dismantling Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023098323` · 9/8/2023 · DE KALB, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Metal plates, metal panels
## Employer
- **Name:** Louisiana Chemical Dismantling Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 5934 Highway 493, DE KALB, MISSISSIPPI, 39328
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting plate steel into smaller pieces with a cutting torch. The employee was struck by a falling steel plate after it was cut from another plate. They sustained fractures to the right leg.

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