# Fractures at Express Employment Professionals
> OSHA SIR `2023109079` · 10/2/2023 · ALVARADO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Structural elements, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Express Employment Professionals
- **Location:** 8328 Hwy 67, Building C&D, ALVARADO, TEXAS, 76009
- **NAICS:** 561320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A temporary employee was setting up a deck panel form. The temporary employee was working with two other employees to make the rebar cage fit in order to close the mold for production. A chain was used to pull or keep the cage in place. A short metal form wall fell and pinned the temporary employee's leg/ankle against the form base. He sustained a broken right fibula.

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