# Bruises, contusions at Cardinal Strategies
> OSHA SIR `2022076092` · 7/13/2022 · VAN ALSTYNE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower extremities, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Bruises, contusions
## Cause
- **Event:** Excavation or trenching cave-in
- **Source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
## Employer
- **Name:** Cardinal Strategies
- **Location:** 1776 S. Industrial Parkway, VAN ALSTYNE, TEXAS, 75495
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were installing an underground drainage line. The 6-foot ditch they were working in partially collapsed, and one employee was buried up to their upper thighs. The employee was bruised by the shoring equipment.

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