# Crushing injuries at Command Construction, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2016020960` · 2/1/2016 · METAIRIE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Structures and surfaces, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Command Construction, LLC
- **Location:** 3206 N Turnbull Dr, METAIRIE, LOUISIANA, 70002
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping to install ground pipe in a deep trench. He was outside of the trench box on top of the 60-inch, pre-cast pipe form and bracing pipe. A back hoe operator was attempting to move the trench box when a portion of it made contact with the employee's left foot, crushing and breaking it.

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