# Fractures at Joseph B Fayco
> OSHA SIR `2020088238` · 8/31/2020 · PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
- **Secondary source:** Excavating machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Joseph B Fayco
- **Location:** 2702 E Luzerne St., PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 19137
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An excavator load struck an employee. The employee was knocked over onto a steel diaphragm, which caught the employee's leg and pinned it as the employee continued to fall. The leg was broken.

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