# Fractures at Tampa Bay Steel Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2025043969` · 4/29/2025 · TAMPA, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Upper and lower extremities  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Pipes, tubes  metal
- **Secondary source:** Other semi, tractor-trailer
## Employer
- **Name:** Tampa Bay Steel Corporation
- **Location:** 6901 E. 6th Ave., TAMPA, FLORIDA, 33619
- **NAICS:** 331111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee loaded 18x42 and 24x42 steel pipe that was banded together onto the back of a flatbed trailer. The employee was securing the pipes with a strap over the top of them. When the strap tightened, the band broke and the pipe rolled off onto the employee. The employee sustained fractures to the left arm, hand and leg.

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