# Fractures at Opell Excavating LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025054668` · 5/19/2025 · CANFIELD, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed between running equipment and other object(s)
- **Source:** Tunneling machines
- **Secondary source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
## Employer
- **Name:** Opell Excavating LLC
- **Location:** 10200 Berlin Station Road, CANFIELD, OHIO, 44406
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a road boring machine to install a water line underneath a highway when the machine moved and closed on his leg, pinching it against the trench and resulting in a broken leg.

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