# Fractures at Forza Pipeline Services
> OSHA SIR `2020043482` · 4/16/2020 · STANTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Metal pipes, tubing
## Employer
- **Name:** Forza Pipeline Services
- **Location:** Hwy 137 and Hwy 176 approximately 4 miles south, STANTON, TEXAS, 79782
- **NAICS:** 237120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing a pipeline in a trench. The employee coiled tubing on a spool and was attempting to tie in two pipe ends when the pipe slipped and flexed, striking and fracturing the employee's fibula.

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