# Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified at Iroquois Paving Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2023087770` · 8/23/2023 · GILMAN, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Dirt, earth
- **Secondary source:** Bucket, front-end, end, and pay loaders
## Employer
- **Name:** Iroquois Paving Corporation
- **Location:** In an Alley between 3rd and 4th St, GILMAN, ILLINOIS, 60938
- **NAICS:** 324121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On August 23, 2023, employees were installing an underground sanitation pipe. The injured employee was working inside a trench box while a loader was back filling another section of the trench. The soil struck the employee; they were hospitalized for a compressed vertebra.

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