# Fractures at American Proteins, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20171111249` · 11/26/2017 · HANCEVILLE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall from collapsing structure or equipment 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Catwalks
## Employer
- **Name:** American Proteins, Inc.
- **Location:** 1170 County Road 508, HANCEVILLE, ALABAMA, 35077
- **NAICS:** 311613
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking on a bar grate about to perform maintenance on a metal detector when the bar grate fell 11 feet 5 inches onto the work platform below. He landed on his feet on the platform below him, fracturing his left tibia and fibula.

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