An employee was cutting a piece of steel with a torch. About 40 feet away, an excavator with a grapple attachment was pulling apart two other pieces of steel that were connected with bolts. When those two pieces were pulled apart, the bolts broke and one of the pieces flew out the side of the grapple. It struck the employee in the hand and right leg, causing hand fractures and lacerations and a broken femur. The employee was hospitalized.