# Fractures at Sure Steel, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024054003` · 5/7/2024 · BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area  unspecified
- **Source:** Hoists, lifts  scissor, telescoping
- **Secondary source:** Beams and rails  metal
## Employer
- **Name:** Sure Steel, Inc.
- **Location:** 1 Rocket Road, BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, 78521
- **NAICS:** 238120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was laying on a steel beam when a rough-terrain boom lift struck the beam with a rear tire and ran over his left thigh. He sustained a compound fracture to his femur.

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