# Fractures at TEDS Plumbing LLC
> OSHA SIR `20191212880` · 12/16/2019 · HUGOTON, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Excavation or trenching cave-in
- **Source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
## Employer
- **Name:** TEDS Plumbing LLC
- **Location:** 507 S. Harrison, HUGOTON, KANSAS, 67951
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was digging around the saddle of a sewer tap at a residential job site. The side wall of the ditch collapsed and a chunk of asphalt and dirt pinned the employee against the side of the ditch. He suffered broken ribs and a broken pelvis.

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