# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at Fischer Excavating, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022064924` · 6/8/2022 · WHITEWATER, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Trenchers
## Employer
- **Name:** Fischer Excavating, Inc.
- **Location:** Yoder Ln, WHITEWATER, WISCONSIN, 53190
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was grading a trench inside a trench box with the assistance of a machine operator who was using the teeth of his bucket to help with a pile in the trench box. The employee was struck by the bucket and pinned between the bucket and a spreader bar, resulting in a broken arm, center mass bruising, bleeding of the liver, and a few fractures where his ribs meet his spine.

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