# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at GEO HEAT EXCHANGERS, L.L.C.
> OSHA SIR `2015096712` · 9/14/2015 · SAINT GABRIEL, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** GEO HEAT EXCHANGERS, L.L.C.
- **Location:** 3650 CYPRESS AVE., SAINT GABRIEL, LOUISIANA, 70776
- **NAICS:** 333415
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was at the shop warehouse using a come-a-long to pull a tube bundle inside a condenser shell. The come-a-long hook was attached to a metal lifting lug welded onto a shell. As the employee was pulling the tube bundle back into the condenser shell, the weld holding the lug onto the shell broke. The lug struck the employee in the throat.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*