# Fractures at LA Contracting Enterprise, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018077177` · 7/16/2018 · THIBODAUX, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Upper arm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Excavating machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Structures, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** LA Contracting Enterprise, LLC
- **Location:** off Plantation Hwy, THIBODAUX, LOUISIANA, 70301
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was laying sewer line when their hand was caught between the top of the shoring box and the bottom of the excavator bucket. The employee sustained a fractured forearm.

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