# Fractures at Alamo Broadband Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018032568` · 3/15/2018 · ELMENDORF, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall through surface or existing opening, unspecified
- **Source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
## Employer
- **Name:** Alamo Broadband Inc.
- **Location:** 3712 New Mathis, ELMENDORF, TEXAS, 78112
- **NAICS:** 517210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was surveying a building to determine the routing of fiber for a communications installation when he stepped into a ditch that was unmarked and fractured his left knee.

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