# Fractures at Taylor Excavating & Construction, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025021387` · 2/12/2025 · EVANSTON, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back  lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object  unspecified
- **Source:** Rods, reinforcing bar (rebar) metal
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Taylor Excavating & Construction, Inc.
- **Location:** 2169 Campus Dr., EVANSTON, ILLINOIS, 60208
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was picking up insulation debris off the ground by hand when an approximately 10-foot long piece of metal rebar fell and hit him on his back. The employee sustained a fractured lumbar vertebra. The employee was hospitalized.

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