# Fractures at Howard Drilling, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019065845` · 6/10/2019 · MOUNT JEWETT, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Loaders, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Howard Drilling, LLC
- **Location:** 11 Bridge Street, MOUNT JEWETT, PENNSYLVANIA, 16740
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing near the front of a loader carrying pipe. Several pipes rolled off the loader and one of them struck the employee's right foot, rolling up his leg and causing a fracture of the lower leg.

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