# Fractures at Austin Engineering Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023099046` · 9/30/2023 · LEANDER, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Excavation or trenching cave-in
- **Source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
## Employer
- **Name:** Austin Engineering Company, Inc.
- **Location:** Garbles Horn road and Ronald Ragan Bld., LEANDER, TEXAS, 78641
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in a 4-foot excavation laying pipe. The ditch gave way, falling onto the employee and fracturing his hip.

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