# Fractures at GMB Power Line Services
> OSHA SIR `2023010969` · 1/31/2023 · CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
- **Source:** Skid steer loaders, mini loaders
## Employer
- **Name:** GMB Power Line Services
- **Location:** 550 Hunt Avenue, CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, 25302
- **NAICS:** 486990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was reviewing paperwork that was placed on the front bumper of a digger truck when a skid steer backed over the employee's left foot. The employee sustained multiple foot fractures.

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