# Fractures at Empire Acero, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2015085353` · 8/3/2015 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Vehicle and mobile equipment parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Cranes-truck-mounted
## Employer
- **Name:** Empire Acero, LLC
- **Location:** 11625 Martindale, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77048
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee working on the ground was disassembling the boom of a crane to add another section. A section of the boom landed on and fractured the employee's lower left leg.

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