# Fractures at Welded Construction
> OSHA SIR `20171110513` · 11/2/2017 · TREMONT, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway
- **Source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, n.e.c
## Employer
- **Name:** Welded Construction
- **Location:** Welded Yard, TREMONT, PENNSYLVANIA, 17981
- **NAICS:** 237120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On 11/2/17, an employee was driving a stringing truck that was carrying two joints of pipe when the truck struck a guardrail, causing the truck to rollover.  The operator was hospitalized with fractured vertebrae, a fractured nose and a fractured occipital bone.

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