# Fractures at M.A. Mortenson Company
> OSHA SIR `2022010538` · 1/18/2022 · GUY, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Electric parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Containers-variable restraint, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** M.A. Mortenson Company
- **Location:** 18203 Wolfgang Road, GUY, TEXAS, 77444
- **NAICS:** 221114
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was lifting a 50-pound photovoltaic (PV) panel from a horizontal stack of PV panels on a pallet on the ground. The next panel in the stack tipped forward and hit the employee below the left kneecap, breaking the employee's lower leg.

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