# Fractures at United Scrap Metal, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024098735` · 9/19/2024 · SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **2 hospitalizations**
- **Body part:** Leg(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object dropped by person
- **Source:** Cardboard
- **Secondary source:** Workers engaging in team lift
## Employer
- **Name:** United Scrap Metal, Inc.
- **Location:** 3808 Weber Road, SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI, 63125
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were manually moving two large, flattened empty boxes when the boxes struck them. The employees sustained leg fractures and both employees were hospitalized.

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