# Fractures at Texas New Mexico Power
> OSHA SIR `2018065893` · 6/15/2018 · ANGLETON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Limbs, branches-unattached
## Employer
- **Name:** Texas New Mexico Power
- **Location:** N. Plantation Drive @ Valaderas, ANGLETON, TEXAS, 77515
- **NAICS:** 221122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was positioned on the ground cutting a tree that had fallen on a power line (the line was de-energized) when a 4' tree limb fell on him. He fell to the ground with the tree limb, which pinned his left leg and broke his femur.

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