# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at Intercontinental Services of Delaware, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20161110526` · 11/8/2016 · WILMINGTON, DELAWARE
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple face locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
- **Source:** Picks
- **Secondary source:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Intercontinental Services of Delaware, LLC
- **Location:** 1020 Christiana Avenue, WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, 19801
- **NAICS:** 541614
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a pickaxe to poke and break up clumps of material inside a hopper when the spike end of the pickaxe was caught by a rotating auger in the hopper, causing the other end of the axe to strike and scrape the employee's face. He sustained a severe injury to the right side of his face. His lip was severely traumatized and lacerated, his facial skin was ripped and peeled, and his cheekbone broke.

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