# Fractures at Helix Electric, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024109730` · 10/18/2024 · CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** External and internal neck locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by rolling, sliding, or shifting objects non-running
- **Source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Utility carts, hand trucks, dollies
## Employer
- **Name:** Helix Electric, Inc.
- **Location:** NGIC, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA, 22911
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was using a pipe cart to move conduit. The uprights on the cart shifted and struck him in the throat, fracturing his larynx. He was hospitalized for surgery.

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