# Fractures at Sunbelt Rentals Scaffold Services LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024098239` · 9/5/2024 · BURLESON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object  unspecified
- **Source:** Tires, inner tubes
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Sunbelt Rentals Scaffold Services LLC
- **Location:** 400 NE Wilshire Blvd., BURLESON, TEXAS, 76028
- **NAICS:** 532490
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee temporarily positioned two telehandler tires against a concrete K-rail to replace the broken pallet on which the tires were originally situated. Shortly thereafter, the employee was walking by and the tires fell from their vertical position to the ground and struck the employee's right leg above his ankle. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured tibia and fibula.

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