# Fractures at JOSEPH B. FAY COMPANY
> OSHA SIR `2017065704` · 6/21/2017 · MC DONALD, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Excavation or trenching cave-in
- **Source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
## Employer
- **Name:** JOSEPH B. FAY COMPANY
- **Location:** Route 980, MC DONALD, PENNSYLVANIA, 15057
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was inside an excavation that only had one side sloped to grade and the other side was 9 to 10 feet high. Part of the excavation's high wall collapsed and struck the employee. The employee sustained a broken left metatarsal, humerus, and vertebrae.

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