# Fractures at McCarthy Building Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20181111414` · 11/5/2018 · AUSTIN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet) and ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
- **Source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
## Employer
- **Name:** McCarthy Building Company, Inc.
- **Location:** Between 35th and 45th Streets, AUSTIN, TEXAS, 78731
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While helping offload concrete traffic barriers at a construction site, two employees were struck by a flatbed truck as it backed up. One of them suffered a broken right foot and ankle and was hospitalized, undergoing surgery.

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