# Fractures at Williams and Sons Excavating
> OSHA SIR `2024098204` · 9/4/2024 · GROVE CITY, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s)  unspecified
- **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:** Williams and Sons Excavating
- **Location:** 6237 Windlciff Drive, GROVE CITY, OHIO, 43123
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was filling an excavator bucket with water. When the bucket activated to dump the water, the bucket crushed the employee's right leg. The employee sustained a fractured leg that required surgery.

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