# Crushing injuries at R.H. WHITE CONSTRUCTION
> OSHA SIR `2017076328` · 7/10/2017 · WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet) and ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area
- **Source:** Bucket, front-end, end, and pay loaders
## Employer
- **Name:** R.H. WHITE CONSTRUCTION
- **Location:** Mt. Vernon Street., WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, 01605
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was guiding a trailer-mounted compressor that was suspended by the bucket of a loader. He had positioned the suspended compressor's trailer hitch so that it could be lowered onto a tow vehicle's pintle hitch when his left foot/ankle was struck and ran over by the loader's left front wheel. He was hospitalized.

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