# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at Quikrete
> OSHA SIR `20201010059` · 10/22/2020 · ALVARADO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
- **Source:** Vehicle, n.e.c
- **Secondary source:** Structural elements, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Quikrete
- **Location:** 1008 US-67, ALVARADO, TEXAS, 76009
- **NAICS:** 327320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a ride-on sweeper in the yard cleaning the concrete pad. He took a turn toward the radial stack conveyor and the sweeper struck a C-channel support beam on the side of the conveyor. The employee sustained lacerations to the face/neck, a compression fracture of the T-7 vertebra, and a punctured lung.

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