# Fractures at Environmental Allies Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024043024` · 4/5/2024 · HUMBLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ears and facial region  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Collapse, engulfment  open trench or excavation
- **Source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Environmental Allies Inc.
- **Location:** 20634 Kenswick Dr, HUMBLE, TEXAS, 77338
- **NAICS:** 423390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in a 13-foot trench busting concrete with a sledgehammer and a drill to fit a pipe in a junction box. The trench collapsed and dirt hit the back of his legs, causing him to hit his face on a piece of rebar and concrete. The employee suffered a puncture wound and fractures to his face below the right eye.

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