# Fractures at Kraemer North America, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024109774` · 10/21/2024 · LONE ROCK, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object  unspecified
- **Source:** Beams and rails  metal
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Kraemer North America, LLC
- **Location:** State Hwy 133/130 over WI River, LONE ROCK, WISCONSIN, 53556
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using an excavator (with hydraulic shears mounted on it) to move, shear, and cut old steel trusses. He set a truss on the ground in front of him and began adjusting the position of the excavator. The truss rolled into the cab of the excavator and struck his right leg below the knee. He suffered a broken tibia and fibula as well as a wound to the lower leg.

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