# Fractures at Northwestern University
> OSHA SIR `2018076863` · 7/9/2018 · EVANSTON, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area
- **Source:** Off-road passenger vehicles-powered, n.e.c
## Employer
- **Name:** Northwestern University
- **Location:** 1947 Ridge Ave., EVANSTON, ILLINOIS, 60208
- **NAICS:** 611310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was sitting on the dock when a coworker started an RTV, which then moved forward and crushed her leg between the RTV and the dock. She was hospitalized with a leg fracture.

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