# Cuts and abrasions or bruises at Tharp's Ltd.
> OSHA SIR `20161211228` · 12/1/2016 · ADAIR, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **2 hospitalizations**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts and abrasions or bruises
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle on side of road
- **Source:** Highway vehicle, motorized, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Tharp's Ltd.
- **Location:** E 2100 St and N 700 Rd, ADAIR, ILLINOIS, 61411
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were installing a fiber optic cable along a rural roadway and were cleaning up the site at the end of the day when a vehicle approached the work site, left the road, and traveled through the ditch, striking two employees. The first employee suffered lacerations and contusions, while the other suffered a fractured leg. Both were hospitalized.

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