# Fractures at Raceland Raw Sugar, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025021470` · 2/14/2025 · RACELAND, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple leg locations  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other contact with non-running objects or equipment  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Bucket, front-end, and pay loaders
- **Secondary source:** Unattached rail car
## Employer
- **Name:** Raceland Raw Sugar, LLC
- **Location:** 175 Mill Street, RACELAND, LOUISIANA, 70394
- **NAICS:** 311314
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The injured employee and a co-worker were moving a tank car loaded with molasses from the loading station to the designated side of the facility using a wheel loader to pull the rail car. The employees reached an incline and applied the handbrake. While they repositioned the wheel loader to push the rail car the remaining distance to their destination, the rail car started to move backward. The injured employee climbed onto the rear platform of the car to tighten the brake, but the rail car collided with the loader bucket and the employee suffered fractures to their right femur and tibia.

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