# Fractures at Limeco, Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2025065229` · 6/3/2025 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed between running equipment and other object(s)
- **Source:** Excavators
- **Secondary source:** Structural barriers  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Limeco, Incorporated
- **Location:** 4221 Schurmier Road, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77048
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was emptying bulk bags/sacks of lime into a lime pit. A sack fell into the lime pit. The employee was directing an excavator to pick it up when the excavator struck the employee, fracturing their left ankle against a concrete barrier.

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