# Fractures and surface, flesh wounds at Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025076385` · 7/2/2025 · MARION, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by propelled, falling, or suspended object  unspecified
- **Source:** Towers, poles  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc.
- **Location:** 2075 Pfannsteil Lane, MARION, TEXAS, 78124
- **NAICS:** 221122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On July 2, 2025, the injured employee was installing new guide wraps while redoing a driveway. A truck struck a 40-foot wooden electrical pole while backing out of the driveway. The pole partially broke. Another guide pole across the street began cracking and a crew came to address it. While pulling the guide pole out, it broke and slid down the guidelines. It struck the injured employee on the head and back but did not land on top of the employee. The employee sustained a laceration to the head and compression fractures to the lower back.

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