# Fractures at Universal Scrap Metals
> OSHA SIR `2018010245` · 1/8/2018 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Bundles, bales
## Employer
- **Name:** Universal Scrap Metals
- **Location:** 2500 W. Fulton Street, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60612
- **NAICS:** 423510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking through the production floor when part of a bale of aluminum cans fell and hit him, knocking him to the ground. He sustained a fractured clavicle.

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