# Fractures at Pulice Construction Inc
> OSHA SIR `2025055117` · 5/30/2025 · COLUMBUS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Roadway noncollision  vehicle overturn
- **Source:** Excavators
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Pulice Construction Inc
- **Location:** IH-10 Westbound (East of Hwy 71), +29.693545; -96.555810, COLUMBUS, TEXAS, 78934
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using an excavator to unload concrete traffic barriers. The excavator swung, tipped over an existing barrier, and fell into a ravine/wetland. The employee sustained a fractured left shin requiring hospitalization and surgery.

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