# Fractures at Walbridge Equipment Installation
> OSHA SIR `2017054427` · 5/16/2017 · LUBBOCK, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple leg locations, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Structural elements, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** High winds, gusts, turbulence
## Employer
- **Name:** Walbridge Equipment Installation
- **Location:** 11613 N. I-27 exit 12, LUBBOCK, TEXAS, 79403
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was preparing to weld on a small building frame and had removed the strap securing it when a gust of wind blew the frame over. The frame then struck him on the right knee and the back of his head. He suffered right leg fractures above and below the knee.

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