# Fractures at M5 Utilities, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024076868` · 7/29/2024 · SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to slip or trip
- **Source:** Existing opening, hole in constructed surface
- **Secondary source:** Rods, reinforcing bar (rebar) metal
## Employer
- **Name:** M5 Utilities, LLC
- **Location:** 11102 S. Zarzamora, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, 78224
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The injured employee was moving a sheet of 4 x 8 plywood with another employee when his foot slipped 3 feet down into a hole and got caught on exposed rebar, causing him to fall.  He was hospitalized with two fractures to his left tibia.

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