# Fractures at Telco Supply Company
> OSHA SIR `2020065976` · 6/26/2020 · OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Excavation or trenching cave-in
- **Source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
- **Secondary source:** Excavating machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Telco Supply Company
- **Location:** County Line Rd and John Kilpatrick Turnpike, OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA, 73190
- **NAICS:** 237130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

As an employee was working in a shallow trench, the ground beneath an excavator collapsed, causing the excavator to fall into the trench and strike the employee. The employee was temporarily pinned between the excavator and a communication box installed in the trench, suffering broken ribs and back vertebrae.

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