# Fractures at Jam - N Cable
> OSHA SIR `2020066115` · 6/30/2020 · NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **2 hospitalizations**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall or jump curtailed by personal fall arrest system
- **Source:** Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
- **Secondary source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
## Employer
- **Name:** Jam - N Cable
- **Location:** 625 Jersey Avenue, NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY, 08901
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were pulling cable strands with a rating of 5000 pounds. While they were tightening the cable on the right side of the street, there was some slack in the cable on the left side of the street. A tractor trailer pulled out of an industrial park and snapped the cable. The cable swung towards the bucket truck causing employee 1, who was wearing a harness, to jump out of the bucket truck to avoid being hit by the cable. Employee 1 sustained a fractured rib and a back injury. The cable then swung through some trees and hit employee 2, who was on the ground. Employee 2 sustained a leg injury.

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