# Fractures at Northstar Contracting Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015010043` · 1/3/2015 · CLEVELAND, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Bars, rods, reinforcing bar (rebar)
## Employer
- **Name:** Northstar Contracting Inc.
- **Location:** 786 E. 140th St., CLEVELAND, OHIO, 44110
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While in the process of unloading pre-tied mats of rebar, one of the bundles fell off of the tying jig and pinned three workers underneath. Two of the workers were unharmed. A third employee suffered a fractured rib and a fractured vertebra.

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