# Fractures at Ethan Allen Personnel Group, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016054183` · 5/13/2016 · KINGSTON, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in work zone
- **Source:** Excavating machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Ethan Allen Personnel Group, Inc.
- **Location:** Broadway and Grand, KINGSTON, NEW YORK, 12401
- **NAICS:** 561320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was flagging traffic at a road construction when an excavator backed over and crushed his lower left leg. He suffered severe lower leg fractures, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

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