# Fractures at Elgin Power & Separation Solutions
> OSHA SIR `2024010228` · 1/10/2024 · PRINCETON, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object tipping over
- **Source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Elgin Power & Separation Solutions
- **Location:** 1176 Shelter Road, PRINCETON, WEST VIRGINIA, 24739
- **NAICS:** 333131
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was strapping a stacked tube casing onto a forklift. Part of the stack fell, and the casing struck the employee's left shin. His leg was trapped between that casing and another one, and he suffered a broken tibia.

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