# Fractures at Pike Electric West
> OSHA SIR `2025043123` · 4/3/2025 · DALLAS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other lower extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level resulting from exposure or contact  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Boom truck, cherry picker
- **Secondary source:** Trees
## Employer
- **Name:** Pike Electric West
- **Location:** 4855 Bismarck Dr., DALLAS, TEXAS, 75216
- **NAICS:** 221121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working from a bucket truck to restore a power line. The boom was lowered and struck a tree, causing the employee to be ejected from the bucket. The employee fell approximately 25 feet to the ground below, resulting in fractures to both femurs and one fractured bone in their back.

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