# Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures at Evergreen Caisons, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025077296` · 7/26/2025 · ROGGEN, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
## Cause
- **Event:** Nonroadway noncollision  Struck by shifting, dislodged load in transport
- **Source:** Bulldozers
- **Secondary source:** Hooks, shackles, magnets, clamshells
## Employer
- **Name:** Evergreen Caisons, Inc.
- **Location:** Structure 191 on Pathways Project Transmission, ROGGEN, COLORADO, 80652
- **NAICS:** 238110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

At 5:46 PM, on July 26, 2025, an Evergreen Caissons bulldozer operator was towing a water truck on a sandy job site. The tow hook failed and the shackle and D-ring on the nylon tow rope snapped back and went through the back window of the dozer, and struck the operator. The employee sustained a gash under their right armpit. The employee was hospitalized.

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