# Fractures at Duquesne Light Company
> OSHA SIR `2025054996` · 5/27/2025 · MCKEESPORT, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Upper and lower extremities  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to slip or trip
- **Source:** Other constructed surface
- **Secondary source:** Safety markers
## Employer
- **Name:** Duquesne Light Company
- **Location:** 270 Center Street, MCKEESPORT, PENNSYLVANIA, 15132
- **NAICS:** 221122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was overseeing crew members installing crack sealant on new asphalt. Some sealant got on the front of the employee's boot. In order to prevent smearing the crack sealant all over the lot, the employee stepped backward on his heel. He then tripped on a traffic cone and fell, sustaining fractures to his wrist and hip.

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