# Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at Wilsons Enterprises
> OSHA SIR `2019077360` · 7/19/2019 · COLUMBUS, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Trenchers
- **Secondary source:** Bars, rods, reinforcing bar (rebar)
## Employer
- **Name:** Wilsons Enterprises
- **Location:** 900 Buckeye Park Road, COLUMBUS, OHIO, 43207
- **NAICS:** 238190
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was running a trencher in a yard. The trencher hit a 10-foot rod that had been covered with dirt, and the rod flipped into the employee's back thigh and caused a puncture wound above the knee. The employee was hospitalized.

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