# Fractures at Ernst Trenching, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018065683` · 6/11/2018 · MC LAUGHLIN, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Nonroadway noncollision incident, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Ernst Trenching, Inc.
- **Location:** Unknown, MC LAUGHLIN, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57642
- **NAICS:** 237130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee lost their balance while riding on the machine as the machine slowed to change direction. He stepped backwards onto the front tire of the machine. Since the machine was in reverse, he was pulled down under the machine by the tire causing fractured vertebrae and a leg laceration.

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