# Fractures at Tampa Bay Steel, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025077216` · 7/24/2025 · TAMPA, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Pipes, tubes  metal
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Tampa Bay Steel, LLC
- **Location:** 6901 E 6th Avenue, TAMPA, FLORIDA, 33619
- **NAICS:** 331111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was preparing bundles of 24-foot square metal tubing to be loaded onto a truck and cut the safety band for a bundle. While the employee was removing a piece of dunnage from a bundle, they bumped the bundle with their leg. The metal tubing then fell forward and struck the employee, causing a fractured left ankle.

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