# Fractures at Covanta Dade Renewable Energy, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017076790` · 7/21/2017 · DORAL, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Cranes, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Covanta Dade Renewable Energy, LLC
- **Location:** 6990 NW 97th Avenue, DORAL, FLORIDA, 33178
- **NAICS:** 562998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing pins from a crane grapple arm when he was caught in the pinch point of the crane grapple tine and a support member, fracturing his ribs and vertebrae.

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