# Fractures at Wallace and Ferguson General Contractor, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018099136` · 9/4/2018 · GURLEY, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Boring, routing, notching machines
## Employer
- **Name:** Wallace and Ferguson General Contractor, Inc.
- **Location:** Cherry Tree Road, GURLEY, ALABAMA, 35748
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pulling back the rods of a boring machine when the rods became bound. Once they became loose, the bore rods flipped over and a bore head struck the employee's right leg, breaking bones.

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