# Fractures and soft tissue injuries at Wilcorp, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024054340` · 5/16/2024 · COMMERCE, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet) and ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and soft tissue injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Panels, sheets, plates  metal
- **Secondary source:** Excavators
## Employer
- **Name:** Wilcorp, Inc.
- **Location:** Hudson River Extension, COMMERCE, GEORGIA, 30529
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee moved from a trench box to a man hole box to clean around a sump pipe with a shovel. An excavator was moving a steel plate used for shoring in the man hole box. The steel plate fell onto the bridge of the employee's foot, dislocating their ankle and fracturing several bones on top of the foot.

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