# Fractures at Sterling Steel Company, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2015010059` · 1/4/2015 · STERLING, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s) and leg(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level, unspecified
- **Source:** Railroad tracks
- **Secondary source:** Ice, sleet, snow
## Employer
- **Name:** Sterling Steel Company, LLC
- **Location:** 101 Avenue K, STERLING, ILLINOIS, 61081
- **NAICS:** 331111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was hospitalized following injuries sustained while traveling by foot to the locker room. The employee was between the belt shop and the locker room crossing railroad tracks that had recently been covered with snow. The employee either slipped or tripped and experienced three breaks to the ankle and tibia.

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