# Fractures at Kiewit, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2025076398` · 7/2/2025 · NEW WASHINGTON, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other multiple ear(s), facial locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Skid-steer loaders, mini loaders
- **Secondary source:** Vehicle and machine front attachments
## Employer
- **Name:** Kiewit, Inc
- **Location:** 6170 SR 602, NEW WASHINGTON, OHIO, 44854
- **NAICS:** 221114
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On July 2, 2025, at approximately 8:45 AM, an employee was loading a spool of fence material into a dispensing attachment on a skid steer when the doors of the equipment closed. The employee's jaw/cheeks were caught in the closing doors, resulting in hospitalization with fractures to the jaw and cheek.

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