# Fractures at Colo Railroad Builders
> OSHA SIR `2015085607` · 8/9/2015 · ALVIN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Rails-unattached metal
## Employer
- **Name:** Colo Railroad Builders
- **Location:** 6400 FM 1972, ALVIN, TEXAS, 77511
- **NAICS:** 237990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were moving pieces of rail into position with a backhoe to repair a section of damaged railroad. The injured employee was standing too close to another piece of railing when the backhoe operator set down another piece. His leg was pinched between the two pieces breaking it.

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