On January 28, 2019, at approximately 1:30 p.m., the injured employee, a scrap operator and employee in training for locomotive operations, was performing scrap railcar spotting operations with a trainer at the half track at Timken Steel Corporation scrap yard. Both employees were riding the leading edge of the railcars proceeding in an easterly direction. The injured employee was riding on the north side of the railcar and the operator was on the south. As the railcar went around a slight bend in the tracks, the injured employee was struck in the lower left leg by a piece of scrap steel. The scrap steel was frozen into the ground and sticking up and was not clear of the railway. The injured employee suffered a broken tibia and fibula that required surgery to repair.