# Crushing injuries at MDS Boring and Drilling, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20181011128` · 10/29/2018 · COTULLA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Drilling machines, drilling augers
## Employer
- **Name:** MDS Boring and Drilling, Inc.
- **Location:** 584-42 West of Hwy 469, COTULLA, TEXAS, 78014
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing the pins in the exterior carriage basket of a machine when the drive struck the employee's right leg crushing it.

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