# Fractures at FlowTX Civil
> OSHA SIR `2024098218` · 9/4/2024 · ELMENDORF, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other lower extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  unspecified
- **Source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
- **Secondary source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
## Employer
- **Name:** FlowTX Civil
- **Location:** 8600 S Loop 1604 E, ELMENDORF, TEXAS, 78112
- **NAICS:** 237120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on the edge of a 12' benched trench when the side collapsed and he fell into the trench. His legs were buried and he sustained a fractured pelvis and fractures to his left femur, tibia, and fibula.

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