# Fractures at Recycling Technology Consultants, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018076708` · 7/5/2018 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck, caught, or crushed in collapsing structure, equipment, or material, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Bundles, bales
## Employer
- **Name:** Recycling Technology Consultants, LLC
- **Location:** 3635 Trailmobile Dr., HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77013
- **NAICS:** 562920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was tasked with cutting a bale that had a combination of plastic and cardboard. He was using a pair of shears to cut the wire banding when the bale collapsed onto his left leg, breaking his femur. He was hospitalized.

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