# Fractures at MARTAM CONSTRUCTION, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2025088493` · 8/25/2025 · CARPENTERSVILLE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Pelvis
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Collapse, engulfment  open trench or excavation
- **Source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** MARTAM CONSTRUCTION, INC.
- **Location:** 1432 Kings Road, CARPENTERSVILLE, ILLINOIS, 60110
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was digging in an excavation less than five feet deep to locate existing underground utilities. Side wall shear occurred in the excavation and the employee was struck by loose pieces of asphalt pavement and soil in the lower half of their body. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis.

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