# Fractures at Total Excavating, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2016043369` · 4/22/2016 · HUDSON, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Excavating machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Total Excavating, LLC
- **Location:** Promise Blvd & Heritage Blvd, HUDSON, WISCONSIN, 54016
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On April 22, 2016, an employee was backing up in the trench while directing an excavator operator to come back with the bucket when he was crushed between the excavator bucket and a water main behind him. He suffered cracked ribs and contusions to the left side of his chest.

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