# Fractures at Fluor and JGC Joint Venture
> OSHA SIR `2016087370` · 8/8/2016 · BAYTOWN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Guardrails, road dividers
## Employer
- **Name:** Fluor and JGC Joint Venture
- **Location:** 8303 Sjolander Road, BAYTOWN, TEXAS, 77521
- **NAICS:** 237120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Workers were offloading jersey barriers from a trailer when they lost control of one of the jersey barriers, causing it to strike an employee in the back. The employee rolled off the trailer and laid down on the ground. The employee was hospitalized with L2 and L3 vertebrae fractures.

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