# Fractures at Quanta Telecommunication Services LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020043835` · 4/27/2020 · AUSTIN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
- **Secondary source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
## Employer
- **Name:** Quanta Telecommunication Services LLC
- **Location:** 12 St and Red River St, AUSTIN, TEXAS, 78701
- **NAICS:** 237130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was carrying a 6-foot-long and 5-inch-diameter pipe filled with dirt when he tripped into a 2-foot-deep ditch. He fell on top of the pipe with his hand between the pipe and ground. He sustained a fracture to his right hand that required surgery.

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