# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Star Construction LLC
> OSHA SIR `20201111016` · 11/20/2020 · PELHAM, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Shoulder(s) and back
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
- **Source:** Mini excavators
## Employer
- **Name:** Star Construction LLC
- **Location:** 1 Clark Street, PELHAM, ALABAMA, 35124
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was spotting as a mini-excavator installed a telephone pole. The excavator's boom struck the employee on the left side of his face and his left shoulder, knocking him backwards over a utility pole behind him. He suffered a small laceration to the side of the face and an injury to the shoulder, as well as a lower back injury from the fall. He was hospitalized.

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