# Fractures at Utility Contactors of America, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017054835` · 5/30/2017 · LUBBOCK, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Wrist(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Utility Contactors of America, Inc.
- **Location:** 29th & Marsha Sharpe Frwy, LUBBOCK, TEXAS, 79404
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in a trench using a machine to locate the end of a pipe. A cylinder came off the machine, and the machine bucket became detached and rolled down the trench, striking the employee. The employee suffered a broken right wrist, left leg laceration and torn muscles, and a right ankle laceration.

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