# Fractures at O'Steen Brothers, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20161111098` · 11/29/2016 · GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Beams-unattached metal
- **Secondary source:** Backhoes, trackhoes
## Employer
- **Name:** O'Steen Brothers, Inc.
- **Location:** Old Walmart, GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA, 32608
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a backhoe to lay down a steel beam when the beam broke through the backhoe's glass window and struck his left kneecap. He was hospitalized with a broken left kneecap.

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