# Fractures at Archer Western Construction
> OSHA SIR `2016099158` · 9/28/2016 · TAMPA, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Skull
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
- **Secondary source:** Bridges, dams, locks
## Employer
- **Name:** Archer Western Construction
- **Location:** TIA APM Guideway Project, TAMPA, FLORIDA, 33607
- **NAICS:** 237990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating an aerial lift to torque the bolts on a connection point of the steel girder to a bridge. His head was pinched between the aerial lift control panel cover and the bottom of the steel girder above him. He suffered a laceration to his right ear and a skull fracture, requiring hospitalization.

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