# Fractures at Amthor Steel
> OSHA SIR `2025021093` · 2/3/2025 · ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
- **Source:** Trucks  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Amthor Steel
- **Location:** 1717 Gaskell Ave, ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA, 16503
- **NAICS:** 332312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The injured employee parked their truck and was standing in front of it. Another employee was backing a truck into the high bay when their foot became caught under the brake and accelerator simultaneously. This truck struck the injured employee's right leg and knocked him into the parked truck. He sustained a fractured upper right femur.

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