# Fractures at Thompson Excavation, LTD
> OSHA SIR `2022098438` · 9/23/2022 · COLUMBUS, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Buckets, baskets, pails
- **Secondary source:** Rope, twine, string
## Employer
- **Name:** Thompson Excavation, LTD
- **Location:** 5695 Cherry Bottom Road, COLUMBUS, OHIO, 43230
- **NAICS:** 238110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On September 23, 2022, an employee was working 15 feet down in a manhole, preparing to reform the manhole with mortar. A 5-gallon bucket of mortar was being lowered down to the employee when the knot on its rope broke. It fell about 15 feet and struck the right side of the employee' s back. The employee suffered a spinal fracture in the lower back and was hospitalized.

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