# Fractures at Southwire Company LLC
> OSHA SIR `2016043500` · 4/27/2016 · FLORA, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck, caught, or crushed in other collapsing structure or equipment
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Southwire Company LLC
- **Location:** 11037 Old Hwy 50, FLORA, ILLINOIS, 62839
- **NAICS:** 423690
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee removed state bolts from one of two supporting flanges while working on railing. Both flanges, as well as the equipment they supported, then collapsed on the employee. The employee suffered four broken ribs and a broken tailbone and pelvis.

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