# Fractures at Area Wide Protective, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021086414` · 8/2/2021 · SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **2 hospitalizations**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in work zone
- **Source:** Highway vehicle, motorized, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Area Wide Protective, Inc.
- **Location:** 159 and 158A S I35, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, 78205
- **NAICS:** 561990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Three employees were doing highway work when a vehicle went past the barricades and hit them. Two of the three were hospitalized: one (who had been picking up barrels on the grass by the highway) suffered a broken femur and the other (who had been cracking down an arrow board) suffered a head contusion, a shoulder separation, and a shoulder fracture.

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