# Fractures at Chain Electric Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017065644` · 6/20/2017 · HATTIESBURG, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Towers, poles, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Chain Electric Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 1308 West Pine St., HATTIESBURG, MISSISSIPPI, 39401
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was placing a tag line on a concrete pole as the pole was being moved. The employee was trying to get out of the way when his right leg was caught between two concrete poles, breaking his right femur.

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