# Fractures at Priefert Manufacturing
> OSHA SIR `2017076599` · 7/17/2017 · MOUNT PLEASANT, TEXAS
## 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:** Metal plates, metal panels
- **Secondary source:** Other material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Priefert Manufacturing
- **Location:** 2630 South Jefferson, MOUNT PLEASANT, TEXAS, 75455
- **NAICS:** 333111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was placing 135-pound panels on the rack of an automated storage system when a panel fell and hit his left leg, breaking it above the ankle. He was hospitalized.

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