# Fractures at JOHN CIVETTA & SONS, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2016076219` · 7/11/2016 · NEW YORK, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Excavating machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** JOHN CIVETTA & SONS, INC.
- **Location:** 401 9th Avenue, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 10001
- **NAICS:** 237990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on an excavator while on a catwalk. He then attempted to get off the excavator by holding onto the rail, which was unbolted from previous maintenance work. The rail came loose, and he fell from excavator, fracturing his lower left leg.

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