# Fractures at Shaw Services LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024076674` · 7/23/2024 · LUBBOCK, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Pelvis
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Collapse, engulfment  open trench or excavation
- **Source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Shaw Services LLC
- **Location:** South of 146, west of quaker, LUBBOCK, TEXAS, 79424
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were testing and repairing a sewer line while in a trench that was approximately 3.5 feet deep. Employee 1 was standing and employee 2 was squatting down to work on the line when the trench walls collapsed. Employee 2 was engulfed by the dirt. Both employees were transported to the hospital. Employee 1 was treated but not hospitalized. Employee 2 was hospitalized with a fractured pelvis and injury to the abdominal area.

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