# Fractures at DC Metal Construction
> OSHA SIR `2024032733` · 3/27/2024 · MCKINNEY, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Bundles, bales
- **Secondary source:** Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport powered, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** DC Metal Construction
- **Location:** 1500 Industrial Blvd, MCKINNEY, TEXAS, 75069
- **NAICS:** 332311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading bundled rods for building from a telehandler while standing on five-foot-high pipes and reaching for the rods. The rods slipped off the forks of the telehandler and a bundle fell on their lower legs, fracturing both of them.

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