# Fractures at NOWAK CONSTRUCTION CO., INC.
> OSHA SIR `2015010534` · 1/16/2015 · GODDARD, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Parts and materials, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** NOWAK CONSTRUCTION CO., INC.
- **Location:** Unknown, GODDARD, KANSAS, 67052
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Worker was in a trench and was injured when an operator moved the trench box. The spreader bar on the trench box struck the worker in the back, cracking his vertebra. The worker was hospitalized one night.

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