# Fractures at Rocky Mountain Empire Electric, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024076307` · 7/12/2024 · DENVER, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Power lines, transformers, convertors
- **Secondary source:** Walls
## Employer
- **Name:** Rocky Mountain Empire Electric, Inc.
- **Location:** 1450 MORRISON RD, DENVER, COLORADO, 80204
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting drywall so that feeder pipes could be extended as part of the installation of a transformer (2,000 lbs.). When the pipes were extended, the transformer rolled forward onto them and pinned the employee's lower leg against the wall. The employee suffered fractures to the tibia and fibula.

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