# Surface wounds and bruises, unspecified at First Dakota Enterprise, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017054657` · 5/23/2017 · EMERY, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Surface wounds and bruises, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Excavation or trenching cave-in
- **Source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
## Employer
- **Name:** First Dakota Enterprise, Inc.
- **Location:** Intersection of North 3rd Street and 5th Avenue, EMERY, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57332
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had entered an excavation to remove misaligned sewer piping when the trench collapsed on the employee. The employee was bruised and required hospitalization.

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