# Fractures at Hammers Construction Inc
> OSHA SIR `2023031923` · 3/1/2023 · COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Excavating machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Hammers Construction Inc
- **Location:** 450 E. 4th Street, COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO, 80907
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping to lower a rebar frame into a 5-foot-deep trench. The employee reached for a chain that had come loose from the rebar and the excavator bucket closed on the employee's left arm, crushing it. The employee sustained multiple fractures to their left arm.

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