# Fractures at West Virginia Pipeline, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025010048` · 1/2/2025 · OAK HILL, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet)  excluding toes
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by rolling powered vehicle or machinery
- **Source:** Backhoes, trackhoes
- **Secondary source:** Vehicle or mobile equipment failure
## Employer
- **Name:** West Virginia Pipeline, Inc.
- **Location:** 105 3rd St, OAK HILL, WEST VIRGINIA, 25901
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing behind a backhoe monitoring the work and waiting to gather broken asphalt. The backhoe's brake system dislodged and the equipment rolled backward about 5 feet and over the employee's right foot, resulting in fractures to his metatarsals. The employee was hospitalized.

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