# Fractures at Cash Construction Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019022011` · 2/22/2019 · ELGIN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Bucket, front-end, end, and pay loaders
- **Secondary source:** High winds, gusts, turbulence
## Employer
- **Name:** Cash Construction Company, Inc.
- **Location:** State Hwy 95 & Hwy 290, ELGIN, TEXAS, 78621
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was leaving a front end loader when the wind caught the loader's door, causing the employee to fall to the cement curb about 5 feet below. He suffered broken ribs and a head laceration and was hospitalized.

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