# Fractures at Austin Industrial
> OSHA SIR `2025087913` · 8/11/2025 · SULPHUR, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Cranes other mobile cranes
- **Secondary source:** Rope, twine, string
## Employer
- **Name:** Austin Industrial
- **Location:** 3550 Carlyss Drive #25, SULPHUR, LOUISIANA, 70665
- **NAICS:** 811310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing down from a carrier deck crane. As the employee was exiting the top of the carrier deck, his boot caught a rope on the outrigger, causing him to fall to the limestone gravel ground 46 inches below and break his left shin.

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