# Fractures at Precision Pipeline LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017076305` · 7/9/2017 · MIDDLETOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Drilling machines, drilling augers
- **Secondary source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Precision Pipeline LLC
- **Location:** 101 Greenfield Drive, MIDDLETOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, 17057
- **NAICS:** 237120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was sitting on a casing pipe. The road bore operator could not see the employee and then activated the machine and moved it forward. The right leg of the employee sitting on the pipe became caught/pinched between the track and pipe. He suffered a broken tibia and was hospitalized.

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