# Fractures at WHC Energy Services, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2015096634` · 9/10/2015 · BROUSSARD, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Ground, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** WHC Energy Services, LLC.
- **Location:** 300 Industrial Trace, BROUSSARD, LOUISIANA, 70518
- **NAICS:** 237120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on top of an excavation area flagging a trench box in when the ground gave way. The employee fell inside the trench, hitting the left side of his head and back, breaking four ribs, and bruising his head.

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