# Fractures at R & R Ditching Service, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018077321` · 7/19/2018 · TEMPLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway
- **Source:** Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** R & R Ditching Service, Inc.
- **Location:** 31St & FM 983, TEMPLE, TEXAS, 76502
- **NAICS:** 237130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was riding in the basket of a bucket truck placing cable from pole to pole. As the truck advanced slowly along the ground, it struck a hole. As the truck moved out of the hole, it rocked and the employee fell from the bucket to the ground. The employee sustained fractured vertebrae and a spinal injury.

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