# Fractures at Ball Metal, Food & Aerosol Products Facility
> OSHA SIR `2017032517` · 3/18/2017 · HORSHAM, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Wrist(s) and arm(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Crowbars
- **Secondary source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Ball Metal, Food & Aerosol Products Facility
- **Location:** 431 Privet Rd., HORSHAM, PENNSYLVANIA, 19044
- **NAICS:** 999999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee placed a pry bar into a flywheel of the machine. The machine started and the pry bar struck his right forearm breaking it and his wrist.

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