# Fractures at MIDWEST STEEL WORKS, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2024098544` · 9/13/2024 · LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Other semi, tractor-trailer
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** MIDWEST STEEL WORKS, INC.
- **Location:** 749 N STREET, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, 68501
- **NAICS:** 332312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was tightening down steel on a flatbed truck. While putting his weight into pushing the lever used to tension the winch, the employee slipped and fell off the truck. He landed on the ground and sustained a fractured left forearm.

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