# Fractures at Epic Piping, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20171010016` · 10/18/2017 · SAN MARCOS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Valves, nozzles
## Employer
- **Name:** Epic Piping, LLC
- **Location:** 2301 North IH-35, SAN MARCOS, TEXAS, 78666
- **NAICS:** 331210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was fabricating a pipe using normal hand tools and a crane when a flange fell on his right foot, fracturing metatarsals 1-4. He was hospitalized for surgery.

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