# Fractures at Memphis Road Boring Co., Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024075986` · 7/3/2024 · TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other lower extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Excavators
- **Secondary source:** Vehicle and machine front attachments
## Employer
- **Name:** Memphis Road Boring Co., Inc.
- **Location:** 1421 Lumpkin Avenue, TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI, 38801
- **NAICS:** 237990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was welding a steel pipe when they were struck in the back by an excavator bucket, resulting in fractures to their pelvis and right tibia.

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