# Fractures at Central Steel & Wire Co
> OSHA SIR `2025054366` · 5/8/2025 · CINCINNATI, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Panels, sheets, plates  metal
- **Secondary source:** Cranes gantry, overhead, monorail, container
## Employer
- **Name:** Central Steel & Wire Co
- **Location:** 525 Township Avenue, CINCINNATI, OHIO, 45216
- **NAICS:** 423510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was lifting 4,300-pound sheets of metal using an overhead crane. The sheets being lifted slid away from the employee and fell onto a metal table, which then pushed the employee into a stack of metal sheets. The employee was pinned between the table and the stack, fracturing both legs below the knees. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

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