# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Robert Woehler & Sons Construction
> OSHA SIR `2017032776` · 3/27/2017 · NORFOLK, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Excavation or trenching cave-in
- **Source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
## Employer
- **Name:** Robert Woehler & Sons Construction
- **Location:** 7th and Madison Ave, NORFOLK, NEBRASKA, 68701
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On March 28, 2017, at approximately 11:00 a.m., an employee was cutting around an old water main line in preparation to install a new main when the east wall of the trench collapsed. He was buried up to his waist in dirt from the collapse, suffering a possible hip fracture.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*