# Fractures at Modany Falcone, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20231211467` · 12/18/2023 · BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Excavating machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Reels, rolls, spools, coils, cones
## Employer
- **Name:** Modany Falcone, Inc.
- **Location:** 210 Pittsburgh Road, BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA, 16001
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee and an excavator operator were investigating a potential hydraulic leak on one of the hoses on the arm of the machine. As the operator went to position the arm of the excavator for the employee to have a closer look, the employee's left leg was pinched between the excavator arm and a coil of steel. The employee's leg was broken.

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