# Fractures at BONNESS, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2016021241` · 2/9/2016 · PEMBROKE PINES, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment rolling freely
- **Source:** Concrete or clay pipes and conduits
## Employer
- **Name:** BONNESS, INC.
- **Location:** 20710 SW 54 Place, PEMBROKE PINES, FLORIDA, 33029
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While an employee was laying pipe, a piece of 36" concrete pipe became disconnected from an excavator. The pipe rolled down the slope of the excavation and up against the employee, striking and breaking his lower left leg bones.

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