# Fractures at Barko Hydraulics, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017076400` · 7/12/2017 · SUPERIOR, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Vehicle and mobile equipment parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Barko Hydraulics, LLC
- **Location:** One Banks Avenue, SUPERIOR, WISCONSIN, 54880
- **NAICS:** 333120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On July 12, 2017, an employee was using a wrench to remove a line plug from a hydraulic cylinder while it was resting in a wooden cradle (block) on top of a machine's sub-frame. The wrench breaking the line plug loose created a jarring motion that caused the 620-pound hydraulic cylinder to shift and fall (3.5 feet) off the elevated surface and onto the employee's lower leg, fracturing the right tibia. The employee was hospitalized.

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