# Fractures at Clearsite Industrial
> OSHA SIR `2020043546` · 4/17/2020 · WILMINGTON, DELAWARE
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Vehicle and mobile equipment parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, n.e.c
## Employer
- **Name:** Clearsite Industrial
- **Location:** Amazon, WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, 19804
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning mud out of a concrete footing with a hydroexcavator when the insert from the excavator's rubber vacuum hose sheared off, severing the connection with the dig tubes and causing the dig tubes to fall and strike the employee. The employee was hospitalized with a compression fracture to the back.

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