# Fractures at SCHNABEL FOUNDATION COMPANY
> OSHA SIR `2015050192` · 5/22/2015 · AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Excavation or trenching cave-in
- **Source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
## Employer
- **Name:** SCHNABEL FOUNDATION COMPANY
- **Location:** 150 Hicks Road, AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS, 01003
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was clearing the bottom of an underpinning excavation when the ceiling collapsed and he became pinned under a large granite rock from the old foundation they were underpinning.  The employee was hospitalized and received surgery to repair broken bones in his back.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*