# Fractures at Precision Pipeline, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018032708` · 3/20/2018 · LIBERTY, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Backhoes, trackhoes
## Employer
- **Name:** Precision Pipeline, LLC
- **Location:** Beutertown Road, LIBERTY, PENNSYLVANIA, 16930
- **NAICS:** 237120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping a road bore move pipes from one place to another. The employee was strapping up the pipe casing as a backhoe was reversing nearby. The backhoe then struck the stem connected to the pipe's auger, which resulted in a teeter-totter effect, causing the pipe to strike the employee around his right thigh. He suffered a compound fracture to his right tibia and fibula, as well as a twisted ankle.

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