# Fractures at 5-T Utilities, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022021847` · 2/28/2022 · HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Excavation or trenching cave-in
- **Source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
## Employer
- **Name:** 5-T Utilities, Inc.
- **Location:** 263 North Freeway, HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS, 77340
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had been leveling dirt to make pipe grade and was moving toward the other end of a trench box to exit the trench using a ladder. The soil above the trench box caved in, and the employee sustained a lumbar spine compression fracture.

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