# Fractures at Pumpco Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016109667` · 10/13/2016 · ALPINE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Trailers
## Employer
- **Name:** Pumpco Inc.
- **Location:** Right of way between Hwy 118 and FM 1703, ALPINE, TEXAS, 79830
- **NAICS:** 237120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were picking up a piece of pipe that was about 5 inches wide and 42 inches in diameter to load it on a trailer when the pipe shifted and struck an employee on the left thigh pinning his leg between the pipe and the trailer. The employee was admitted to the hospital for surgery on his broken left tibia.

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