# Fractures at Strong Structural Steel, Ltd.
> OSHA SIR `2018076673` · 7/3/2018 · PHARR, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Structural elements, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Chains, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Strong Structural Steel, Ltd.
- **Location:** 605 W. Rancho Blanco Road, PHARR, TEXAS, 78577
- **NAICS:** 238120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was welding a 25-foot steel A-frame. As the employee lifted the A-frame, a chain about 10 feet high came loose and the A-frame pinned them, causing a possible fracture to the left femur.

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