# Fractures at Reed Contracting Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017043693` · 4/25/2017 · MADISON, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Excavation or trenching cave-in
- **Source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
## Employer
- **Name:** Reed Contracting Services, Inc.
- **Location:** Burgreen Farms, MADISON, ALABAMA, 35756
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing in an excavated pit approximately 2.5 feet deep and 5 feet wide when the side wall caved in on his leg resulting in a fracture.

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