# Fractures at Sema Construction Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022032356` · 3/15/2022 · LAKESIDE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Building materials, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Excavating machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Sema Construction Inc.
- **Location:** 8401 Jacksboro Hwy #100, Lakeside TX 76135, LAKESIDE, TEXAS
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were setting coping on a wall with an excavator. The excavator pulled on a piece of coping (weighing 800-1000 pounds) and caused it to tip over. It fell onto an employee's lower legs; the employee suffered a broken hip and was hospitalized.

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