# Fractures at Verizon
> OSHA SIR `2019033268` · 3/29/2019 · BRONX, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
- **Secondary source:** Girders, beams, structural steel
## Employer
- **Name:** Verizon
- **Location:** Hunts Point Produce Market, BRONX, NEW YORK, 10474
- **NAICS:** 517210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee working in a bucket of bucket truck approximately 16 feet above the ground was securing a steel support strand to a building facade when a tractor trailer hit the steel support strand. It detached from the building and struck the employee causing a broken right arm and facial lacerations.

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