# Fractures at Thalle Construction Co., Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022076254` · 7/18/2022 · SCHERTZ, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
- **Secondary source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
## Employer
- **Name:** Thalle Construction Co., Inc.
- **Location:** 7424 Trainer Hale Road, SCHERTZ, TEXAS, 78154
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping explore for a utility line that ran through a trench. As she was digging with a shovel, she fell back into the trench, landing on her back and flipping over. She suffered a broken collarbone and vertebrae.

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