# Fractures at Vanbuskirk Steel, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021075853` · 7/16/2021 · MORTON, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot(feet) and knee(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other jump to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
- **Secondary source:** Scrap metal
## Employer
- **Name:** Vanbuskirk Steel, LLC
- **Location:** 1500 W Jefferson Street, MORTON, ILLINOIS, 61550
- **NAICS:** 238120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On July 16, 2021, at 11:30 a.m., an employee was standing on a truck's trailer adjusting a load of steel parts that were to be hauled to a scrap yard. The load shifted and the employee jumped off the trailer to the concrete approximately 4 to 5 feet below to avoid being injured by the shifting load. The employee suffered a fractured right heel and fractured left knee that required hospitalization.

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