# Fractures at William's Ditching
> OSHA SIR `2017098660` · 9/9/2017 · AMARILLO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Excavation or trenching cave-in
- **Source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
## Employer
- **Name:** William's Ditching
- **Location:** Off of soncy, south of perry avenue, AMARILLO, TEXAS, 79101
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were placing a water line for the city when one of the employees stepped outside of the trenching box. The earth collapsed around him, fracturing his lower vertebrae.

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