# Fractures at Prima Paving Corp.
> OSHA SIR `2019032981` · 3/21/2019 · BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Excavation or trenching cave-in
- **Source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
## Employer
- **Name:** Prima Paving Corp.
- **Location:** Betsy Head Park, Blake Ave and Thomas S. Boyland Street, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, 11212
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing in a 6.5- to 7-foot deep excavation preparing to install a plastic drainage pipe when part of one excavation wall caved in, burying the lower half of the employee's body in dirt.  A large chunk of dirt also rolled against his upper body. He was hospitalized with fractures to the pelvis and several vertebrae.

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