# Fractures at Philly Shipyard, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20171111101` · 11/19/2017 · PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Pelvis
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Beams-unattached metal
## Employer
- **Name:** Philly Shipyard, Inc.
- **Location:** 2100 Kitty Hawk Avenue, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 19112
- **NAICS:** 336611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was welding on a 1,000-pound steel beam when a bolt on the turnbuckle support loosed and the steel beam tilted, striking the employee. The employee suffered a broken pelvis and was hospitalized.

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