# Fractures at United Electric, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022108689` · 10/3/2022 · CAMBRIA, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot(feet) and leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area
- **Source:** Trenchers
## Employer
- **Name:** United Electric, Inc.
- **Location:** 500 ' off CNTY HWY H @ CNTY HWY H 7 HWY 33, CAMBRIA, WISCONSIN, 53923
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were trenching in a fiber cable using a trenching and plowing machine. Employee 1 was cutting banding around the fiber cable; employee 2 was operating the machine and monitoring the cable as it was laid into ground. Employee 1 was crushed under the left track of the trenching machine, resulting in multiple fractures to their right leg and foot.

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