# Fractures at Linde-Griffith Construction Company
> OSHA SIR `2016043463` · 4/26/2016 · BELMAR, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by handheld object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Metal sheets, ingots, bars-nonstructural
- **Secondary source:** High winds, gusts, turbulence
## Employer
- **Name:** Linde-Griffith Construction Company
- **Location:** 10 & Ocean Avenue, BELMAR, NEW JERSEY, 07719
- **NAICS:** 237990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping to lower metal sheets into place for ground stability when the wind caught one of the sheets, causing it to strike the employee's leg. The employee suffered a broken tibia and fibula.

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