# Fractures at Hirschfeld Industries
> OSHA SIR `2015085384` · 8/4/2015 · SAN ANGELO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Beams-unattached metal
- **Secondary source:** Cranes, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Hirschfeld Industries
- **Location:** 112 W 29th Street, SAN ANGELO, TEXAS, 76903
- **NAICS:** 332312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a beam with a crane. He unhooked the beam and was lifting the hook when the hook caught the beam. The beam fell, striking him and breaking his right femur. He sustained a compound fracture to the right femur bone.

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