# Fractures at M. Lipsitz & Co., Ltd.
> OSHA SIR `2022010752` · 1/25/2022 · ARDMORE, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Construction, logging, and mining machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** M. Lipsitz & Co., Ltd.
- **Location:** OK Iron & Metal Co., ARDMORE, OKLAHOMA, 73401
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee positioned himself under a piece of equipment to loosen a grease fitting, a metal fitting used to feed lubricants into a bearing under moderate to high pressure using a grease gun. The equipment slipped forward and struck the employee's right leg, resulting in a lower leg fracture.

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