# Fractures at Essex Structural Steel Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025054981` · 5/27/2025 · CORTLAND, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Bundles, bales
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Essex Structural Steel Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 607 Route 13, CORTLAND, NEW YORK, 13045
- **NAICS:** 332311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a crane with a lifting device (no load), when the chain on the lifting device caught the dunnage and tipped a bundle of steel weighing approximately 4,300 lbs. onto the employee's legs. The employee was hospitalized with broken legs.

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