# Crushing injuries at Rowe Electric, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023043213` · 4/11/2023 · RINGOES, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Utility and telephone poles
- **Secondary source:** Containers-variable restraint, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Rowe Electric, Inc.
- **Location:** 33 Toad Lane, RINGOES, NEW JERSEY, 08551
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading telephone poles for horizontal storage when a pole slipped off a stack and rolled onto the employee, knocking him to the ground and pinning his leg. The employee sustained a crushing injury to the foot area.

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