# Fractures at BWFS Industries, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019055100` · 5/20/2019 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment rolling freely
- **Source:** Metal pipes, tubing
## Employer
- **Name:** BWFS Industries, LLC
- **Location:** 11900 Eastex Freeway, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77039
- **NAICS:** 484121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping to unload a steel pipe (10"x40' / 2850 lbs.) from a truck. The pipe was lowered onto 4x4s when it rolled forward, jumped the chock, and rolled over the employee. The employee was hospitalized with a broken right leg, three cracked ribs, and a broken collarbone.

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