# Fractures at Brooks Excavation, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021086711` · 8/9/2021 · BOISE, IDAHO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Ran off driving surface, nonroadway
- **Source:** Excavating machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
## Employer
- **Name:** Brooks Excavation, LLC
- **Location:** 11350 Franklin Rd, BOISE, IDAHO, 83709
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating an excavator when it fell over the edge of a seepage bed excavation, landing 12 feet below. The employee suffered fractures to the left leg, as well as a forehead injury (from the excavator's cracked windshield) that required stitches.

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