# Fractures at ASSOCIATED BUILDERS, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2017032157` · 3/9/2017 · SOUTH HADLEY, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area
- **Source:** Backhoes, trackhoes
## Employer
- **Name:** ASSOCIATED BUILDERS, INC.
- **Location:** 4 INDUSTRIAL DR., SOUTH HADLEY, MASSACHUSETTS, 01075
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was grading gravel next to a backhoe when the control lever got stuck and struck him in the hip resulting in a fracture in the ball-and-socket joint area.

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