# Fractures at Schindler Elevator Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2017032023` · 3/3/2017 · NEW YORK, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Wire, cables-nonelectrical
## Employer
- **Name:** Schindler Elevator Corporation
- **Location:** 825 8th Ave., NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 10036
- **NAICS:** 561790
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing a "rope shortening" operation on a freight elevator. One of the six suspension wire cables broke and a section of the wire cable fell onto the employee on top of the elevator car. The employee was hospitalized for a bone fracture.

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