# Fractures at Kirby-Smith Machinery, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025054801` · 5/21/2025 · TULSA, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Vehicle and machine front attachments
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** Kirby-Smith Machinery, Inc.
- **Location:** 12321 East Pine Street, TULSA, OKLAHOMA, 74116
- **NAICS:** 493190
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was beginning to unload a pallet of mini-excavator buckets (weighing approximately 800 pounds each) and was positioned in front of the pallet. When the employee cut the metal banding that went around the buckets, one bucket fell forward onto their right leg and fractured it.

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