# Fractures at Garney Companies, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020099108` · 9/25/2020 · HONEY GROVE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple arm locations, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Tunneling machines
## Employer
- **Name:** Garney Companies, Inc.
- **Location:** FM 100 and Country Road 2735, HONEY GROVE, TEXAS, 75446
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A crew was using a hydraulic tunneling jack to push a carrier pipe into a tunnel. An employee was adjusting the rigging on the tunnel jack machine when the push plate became dislodged from the end of the pipe and fell. The plate struck the employee and came to rest on the backside of the tunnel pit. The employee sustained a compound fracture of the left humerus, a fractured right ulna, and lacerations to the head and knees.

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