# Fractures at 4-S Manufacturing, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019044166` · 4/24/2019 · HEMPSTEAD, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Beams-unattached metal
- **Secondary source:** Cranes, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** 4-S Manufacturing, LLC
- **Location:** 44855 Old Houston Hwy, HEMPSTEAD, TEXAS, 77445
- **NAICS:** 327390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a crane to load a concrete I-beam on a flatbed when the crane's chain broke, releasing the I-beam. The I-beam struck the employee, knocking him to the flatbed and then the ground. He suffered fractures to the back, shoulder, and knees.

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