# Fractures at Reading Site Contractors
> OSHA SIR `2016076399` · 7/15/2016 · NEW TRIPOLI, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in work zone
- **Source:** Highway vehicle, motorized, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Reading Site Contractors
- **Location:** Route 309 and 100, NEW TRIPOLI, PENNSYLVANIA, 18066
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was flagging traffic for a construction site and was struck from behind by a truck exiting the road. The employee suffered two fractured ribs and two fractured vertebrae.

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