# Fractures at Baxmeyer Construction, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022031917` · 3/2/2022 · BETHALTO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Backhoes, trackhoes
## Employer
- **Name:** Baxmeyer Construction, Inc.
- **Location:** 625 N Prairie St, BETHALTO, ILLINOIS, 62010
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On March 2, 2022, at approximately 1:43 p.m., three employees were attempting to lower a 42 inch (in diameter) concrete pipe into an approximately 4 foot deep trench located along a city street. The crew had lifted the concrete sewer pipe by placing an eye of a 1/2 inch diameter rope sling through an approximately 2 inch lifting hole located in the center of the 42" concrete pipe, and placing a 1 1/2 inch bar through the eye of the sling (inside the pipe). The 1/2 wire rope sling was approximately 5 feet in length. The wire rope sling broke below the eye that was placed through the pipe, causing the pipe to fall on the injured employee and fracture both legs.

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