# Fractures at United Ag Services, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2016087934` · 8/23/2016 · VICTORIA, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
- **Source:** Pickup truck
## Employer
- **Name:** United Ag Services, Inc
- **Location:** 350th Ave and Old Hwy 40, VICTORIA, KANSAS, 67671
- **NAICS:** 424510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee attempted to hook up an anhydrous ammonia nurse tank to a farmer's truck hitch. The farmer reversed the truck and pinned the employee's right leg between the vehicle and the nurse tank, breaking his right tibia and fibula and injuring his right ankle. He was hospitalized for surgery.

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