# Fractures at MACHINE & WELDING SUPPLY COMPANY
> OSHA SIR `2018032280` · 3/7/2018 · AUBURNDALE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** MACHINE & WELDING SUPPLY COMPANY
- **Location:** 1110 Spring Court, AUBURNDALE, FLORIDA, 33823
- **NAICS:** 325120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was jogging a cylinder cart onto the lift gate of a service truck when he lost his balance and his right leg was caught by the cart, leaving him hanging upside down. He managed to pull himself back up and fell from the lift gate (3.5 to 4 feet high) to the ground below, fracturing his left tibia.

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