# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at City Plumbing Heating and Drain Services
> OSHA SIR `2016010192` · 1/9/2016 · PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Excavation or trenching cave-in
- **Source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
## Employer
- **Name:** City Plumbing Heating and Drain Services
- **Location:** Market between 3rd and 4th Streets, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 19102
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was coring through a sewer while working in a 15-foot deep excavation. The employee's leg got trapped by debris outside of a trench shield, resulting in a lower limb injury.

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