# Traumatic injuries to bones, nerves, spinal cord, unspecified at Total Contracting Ltd.
> OSHA SIR `2018077828` · 7/6/2018 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Traumatic injuries to bones, nerves, spinal cord, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Excavation or trenching cave-in
- **Source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
## Employer
- **Name:** Total Contracting Ltd.
- **Location:** 804 Colquitt Street, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77006
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On July 6, 2018, an employee was installing pipe in an excavation four feet deep. The walls collapsed and the employee was struck by falling rock and dirt, suffering a compression of the L2 vertebra.

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