# Fractures at Lake Erie Construction Company
> OSHA SIR `2025032637` · 3/19/2025 · WAYNESBURG, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other propelled object or substance  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Strapping, bands
- **Secondary source:** Bundles, bales
## Employer
- **Name:** Lake Erie Construction Company
- **Location:** SR43 near Wiant road, WAYNESBURG, OHIO, 44688
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unbinding a load of guardrail. The employee went to release a levered binder and the binder struck him in the lower right leg. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured tibia and fibula that required surgery.

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