# Fractures at Woodward Design + Build
> OSHA SIR `2016031917` · 3/3/2016 · KENNER, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached
- **Source:** Mini excavators
## Employer
- **Name:** Woodward Design + Build
- **Location:** 3801 Loyola Drive, KENNER, LOUISIANA, 70065
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was checking on a mini-excavator being worked on by a subcontractor. As he walked around the mini excavator, a hydraulic failure caused the extended boom to drop and strike the employee in the upper back area, cracking vertebrae.

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