# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Iriquois Paving Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2019077369` · 7/19/2019 · WATSEKA, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Wrist(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Overexertion in holding, carrying, or wielding-single episode
- **Source:** Road signs
- **Secondary source:** High winds, gusts, turbulence
## Employer
- **Name:** Iriquois Paving Corporation
- **Location:** 1889 East US Highway 24, WATSEKA, ILLINOIS, 60970
- **NAICS:** 324121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was relocating traffic control signs when a gust of wind blew the sign the employee was holding causing injury to the left wrist.

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