# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Bradford Steel
> OSHA SIR `2017043166` · 4/7/2017 · EAST FREETOWN, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Beams-unattached metal
- **Secondary source:** Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container
## Employer
- **Name:** Bradford Steel
- **Location:** 46 Braley Road, EAST FREETOWN, MASSACHUSETTS, 02717
- **NAICS:** 423990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a beam with an overhead crane when the beam went off center. The employee then stepped backward and tripped, and the beam fell on his leg, which was injured and required surgery.

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